The dates for next year’s “Summer Camp for Geeks”, KansasFest 2011 were announced today. The annual celebration of all things Apple II will once again take place at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. Make sure you mark off your calendar for July 19 – 24. No further details have been announced yet – hey, [...]
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?
You know, I need to hire a full-time assistant to follow me around all day whose only job would be to intervene whenever I forget who I am and try to volunteer for public speaking, interviews, or anything that might involve interfacing with more than two people at a time. All he or she [...]
This is a bit weird, to say the least. As I was swimming through the intertubes today, as I often do, I came across this blog entry, titled “Where Apple’s Go To Die”. The blog belongs to a Lebanese photographer who lives (or lived) in Kuwait and though the page is dormant now (the last [...]
I played around with Photoshop’s Photomerge tool to create this panorama of the machines currently set up in my office. What you see here represents maybe 20% of my collection. I’m posting this because I like it, but also because it’s been more than a month since I’ve done anything on this blog. The IIcx [...]
Notice was posted to comp.sys.apple2 and the KansasFest mailing list this morning that Joe Kohn, proprietor of the long-running Apple II software store Shareware Solutions II, passed away on Tuesday after a battle with cancer. Joe was a respected member of the community, writer for the the Apple II publication A+/InCider and KansasFest regular during [...]