Category Archives: Apple II

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

I’ve got a good number of old machines in my computer room here. A prime concern is always how to get data (disk images, etc.) from the Internet to these old machines. Some, like my NeXTStation, are friendly LAN citizens. … Continue reading →

Now, here’s something you don’t see every day. Michael J. Mahon has created the AppleCrate, a parallel computer comprised of eight Apple IIe motherboards running on Mahon’s NadaNet network. From Mahon’s site: In 1996, I began thinking about how one … Continue reading →

Most every day I take a look at the first few pages of auction items in eBay’s Vintage Computing area. There’s always interesting relics to be found, but it’s rare that a real treasure jumps off the page. Recently, I … Continue reading →

It seems Retro Gamer magazine, which I spoke of a while back, has added a few seconds to my allotted 15 minutes of fame. I’ll explain how. In issue 10 there is a nice, 10-page article about the Apple IIgs … Continue reading →