Here’s a fun set of videos that were captured from a 1984 Apple Kiosk Laser Disc. Designed to be used in a touch screen kiosk, the disc goes over the latest offerings from Apple Computer, including the Apple IIe, III Plus, Macintosh, Lisa 2/10 and the brand new, portable Apple IIc. Other items covered include [...]
One of the problems with coming up with a trivia item for something like the Apple II is that it’s been out for more than 30 years. Quite possibly, everything that can be known about it, already is and by a lot of people. This makes finding interesting, obscure information a bit tricky to say [...]
Okay, this should be an easy one – no chance of a technical inaccuracy like last week. Everyone knows the Apple /// was a colossal failure for Apple. Even so, it still managed to make a few appearances on the big and little screen, probably the most famous of which was in 1982’s TRON (see [...]
A quick Apple /// trivia question: what’s wrong with this picture?
Okay, as promised the Apple III presentation I gave at KansasFest is now available at the KansasFest website (it’s in the downloads area, along with a link to my pictures and a bunch of other goodies). I should probably clarify a few things, the most important being that I am a horrible public speaker. Even [...]
It’ been a while since I’ve checked in here, and I’m sure the two of you who still bother to stop by here now and then are beginning to wonder if this blog would ever be updated again. Good news! Today, I dug the Newton eMate 300 out of storage with a mind to upgrade [...]
This turned out not to be as bad as I’d thought. The first Catalyst disk I tried (which I’d made from an image I stumbled across somewhere in the dark recesses of the net) immediately popped up a Drive Not Ready error. Since the activity light on the ProFile didn’t blink, I suspect that this [...]
So, it’s back to the Apple ///. Hey, it’s been calling – what can I do? I just can’t leave a problem unresolved. Anyway, I’d like to thank Dave Ottalini from Washington Apple Pi for providing me with working Quark Catalyst disks so I could try to get to the data on the ProFile drive. [...]
What better way to spend a snowy day off than playing with your Apple III? I can’t think of any. I installed the ProFile interface card, connected it up to the drive, said a prayer (I do that a lot with these things) and powered it up. Considering the age and sensitivity often attributed to [...]
The ProFile was Apple’s first external hard drive and was developed for the business-class Apple III line. After the failure of the Apple III to catch on, Apple re-released the ProFile in 5 and 10 megabyte versions for their next big business flop, the Apple Lisa. Given the outlandish prices Apple III hardware and software [...]