- Boing Boing: No Man's Sky as a Commodore Amiga slideshow
- VG24/7: Sean Murray impressed by No Man’s Sky on Amiga computer
- Hack A Day: BBSing with the ESP8266
- Retro Gamer mag: On Being Featured in Retro Gamer’s “Collector’s Corner”
- Polygon: Meet the guy who spent over $4,000 on No Man’s Sky
- NewEgg- HardBoiled: The Science Behind 3 Inspiring PC Battlestations
- PC Mag: 7 Amazing Vintage Computer Collections
- CNN HLN: Inside the 'Byte Cellar': 30 years with Apple [Archive]
- Forbes: Steve Jobs In The Flesh
- Lifehacker: The Byte Cellar: A Geeked-Out Ode to Computers and Video Games
- Engadget: Blake Patterson's Byte Cellar: the ultimate man cave for aspiring geeks
- PC World: The Byte Cellar Is the Ultimate Geek Dream Den
- Gadget Review: The “Byte Cellar” Contains 122 Video Game Machines
- The Games Shed: Retro Gaming Collections – Blake Patterson – The Retro Story Guy
- Apartment Therapy: Blake's Byte Cellar Workstation With 4 Different Monitors
- CNN (video): Apple's Mac Turns 25
- Engadget: Apple IIc as a Serial terminal to a Mac Mini
- Newton Poetry: Profile: Blake Patterson of ‘Touch Arcade’
- TUAW: Flickr Find: Digital Steve Jobs on a bookshelf [Archive]
- Cult of Mac: Steve Jobs left an imprint on tech and the skin of some devoted fans
Category Archives: Apple II
“I am a geek. This is my car.” – An Apple Sticker Tale
It was with the purchase of my second computer, an Apple //c back in 1984, that I first received a set of Apple stickers. Apple has long bundled an Apple logo sticker with its major products, so users can show … Continue reading
BlueFlash: Apple II Bluetooth/Disk Controller/Disk Archive Card
Earlier this evening I was reading posts at the 68kMLA Forums when I stumbled upon one of the most interesting retro computing projects I’ve ever encountered. I am speaking of the BlueFlash board, a combination Bluetooth / Disk Controller / … Continue reading
Glorious Six Foot Neon Apple Logo Sign Auction
Someone in a recent IRC chat pointed out to me an eBay auction for what might actually be the object on this earth that I would most like to possess, surpassing all other material items by a rather significant margin. … Continue reading
Apple //c as a Dumb Terminal to my Mac mini
Several months ago – maybe more like a year or two ago now, I purchased an Apple //c in mint condition and didn’t really have a plan for just where I would house this little treasure. You see, my second … Continue reading
Apple II Game Server
As regular readers may be aware, one of my first machines was an Apple //c. I sold my TI-99/4A and got a //c in April or May of 1984. I was 11. I have particularly fond memories of it and … Continue reading
Apple I Kits On eBay
Lately I’ve seen a number of assembled Apple I replicas on eBay. These are not original Apple I‘s but are assembled from look-alike kits (the board does physically resemble the original Apple I). They are going for a pretty penny … Continue reading
Apple II Music Video
It seems that I and my blog readers are not the only ones in the world that hold vintage machines in high regard. The band Grandaddy chose a rather interesting medium through which to express the music video of its … Continue reading
The Apple //c Makes It To The Office
A few months back I mentioned that I had procured a rather clean Apple //c setup to take to the office, mainly as just an interesting bit of decor. Well, after a few months of sitting on the dining room … Continue reading
From the Trenches: The Great Christmas ’84 Apple //c vs. IBM PCjr Battle
I fondly remember my first Apple //c. I got it in early 1984, soon after its debut and, to me, it was quite a step up from my first computer, a TI-99/4A (though in several ways the //c was less … Continue reading
My “New” Apple //c Setup
The Apple //c was my first Apple computer, purchased back in 1984 to replace my fading TI-99/4A (the first computer I ever owned). It was a very slick machine, basically a slotless enhanced Apple IIe with most of the ports … Continue reading

