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FILES - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Files. Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works justfine.
3-THE APPLE IISEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG DON WORTH & BENEATH APPLE DOS Don Worth & Beneath Apple DOS. I would consider this book to be one of the landmark publications during the Apple II era. It provided information about the inner workings of Apple mysterious disk operating system that went far beyond the information that Apple released (which dealt exclusively with how to use the Disk II drive from BASIC, Applesoft or Integer.13-PERIPHERALS
Apple II Communications Card – Photo credit: Grinnell.edu web site. In April 1978 the Apple II Communications Interface Card came out, selling for $225. It was intended for use with a modem, and provided full-duplex serial communications at speeds of 110 or300-baud.
1982-1985
1982 Intel announces the 80286 processor. Kaypro introduces the Kaypro II portable, with 9-inch screen and software included, to compete with the Osborne. The term Internet is first used to describ20-MAGAZINES
Call-A.P.P.L.E. May 1984 cover – Photo credit: Bill Martens. By 1980, Call-A.P.P.L.E. had become a full magazine published on slick paper, and it carried advertising by some of the new software and hardware companies. Their articles became more complex, dealing with topics such as “Moving DOS 3.3 To The Language Card“, and “Applesoft Internal Structure”, as well as various hardware 15-DOS 3.3, PRODOS & BEYOND CONTENTS More Disk Storage DOS 3.3 – Features DOS 3.3 – Miscellaneous DOS 3.3 – Limitations Pascal System CP/M SOS ProDOS ProDOS 16 GS/OS GS/OS System 5 GS/OS System 6 Timeline No21-MAGAZINES, CONT.
Computist 60 – Photo credit: Mike Maginnis. As for Hardcore Computist, issue #1 was released in the beginning of 1983, carrying on with the same focus as Hardcore Computing had done from the beginning.“Softkeys” were a list of steps needed to make a copy of a protected disk, and this first issue included Softkeys for Synergist Software’s Data Reporter, Microsoft’s Multiplan, and THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! Well, hundreds of readers have asked me, nay, begged me for this, so I decided to go along with their request. If you have Minecraft (Java edition, or “real” Minecraft as us old-timers call it) and know how to use MCEdit to cut and paste things into world files, here is your opportunity to get your own copy of the Apple IIe (and ImageWriter printer and modem and disk drive, etc., etc.). BOOK - THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! Hi, I’m Steven Weyhrich, a practicing physician from Omaha, Nebraska. I’m also a former Apple II user group newsletter columnist, and have experience with this computer all the way back to1980 and
FILES - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Files. Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works justfine.
3-THE APPLE IISEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG DON WORTH & BENEATH APPLE DOS Don Worth & Beneath Apple DOS. I would consider this book to be one of the landmark publications during the Apple II era. It provided information about the inner workings of Apple mysterious disk operating system that went far beyond the information that Apple released (which dealt exclusively with how to use the Disk II drive from BASIC, Applesoft or Integer.13-PERIPHERALS
Apple II Communications Card – Photo credit: Grinnell.edu web site. In April 1978 the Apple II Communications Interface Card came out, selling for $225. It was intended for use with a modem, and provided full-duplex serial communications at speeds of 110 or300-baud.
1982-1985
1982 Intel announces the 80286 processor. Kaypro introduces the Kaypro II portable, with 9-inch screen and software included, to compete with the Osborne. The term Internet is first used to describ20-MAGAZINES
Call-A.P.P.L.E. May 1984 cover – Photo credit: Bill Martens. By 1980, Call-A.P.P.L.E. had become a full magazine published on slick paper, and it carried advertising by some of the new software and hardware companies. Their articles became more complex, dealing with topics such as “Moving DOS 3.3 To The Language Card“, and “Applesoft Internal Structure”, as well as various hardware 15-DOS 3.3, PRODOS & BEYOND CONTENTS More Disk Storage DOS 3.3 – Features DOS 3.3 – Miscellaneous DOS 3.3 – Limitations Pascal System CP/M SOS ProDOS ProDOS 16 GS/OS GS/OS System 5 GS/OS System 6 Timeline No21-MAGAZINES, CONT.
Computist 60 – Photo credit: Mike Maginnis. As for Hardcore Computist, issue #1 was released in the beginning of 1983, carrying on with the same focus as Hardcore Computing had done from the beginning.“Softkeys” were a list of steps needed to make a copy of a protected disk, and this first issue included Softkeys for Synergist Software’s Data Reporter, Microsoft’s Multiplan, and THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! Well, hundreds of readers have asked me, nay, begged me for this, so I decided to go along with their request. If you have Minecraft (Java edition, or “real” Minecraft as us old-timers call it) and know how to use MCEdit to cut and paste things into world files, here is your opportunity to get your own copy of the Apple IIe (and ImageWriter printer and modem and disk drive, etc., etc.). FILES - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Files. Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works justfine.
ABOUT APPLE II HISTORY About Apple II History. My name is Steven Weyhrich, and I am a family practice physician from Omaha, Nebraska. My Apple II History has been available since the early 1990s, first appearing on the online service GEnie, then in user group newsletters.6-THE APPLE II PLUS
Apple II Plus name plate – Photo credit: Yuji Takahashi’s Apple-II Tree. Other changes included in the Apple II Plus motherboard included those that had previously been made between Revision 0 and Revision 1 boards, as mentioned in Chapter 4.. FIRMWARE 15-DOS 3.3, PRODOS & BEYOND Apple Pascal 1.2 startup – Photo credit: personal. Pascal disks differed also in being able to have a unique name to designate each disk. DOS 3.2 and 3.3 could be formatted to use up to 254 different volume “numbers”, but this feature was seldom used and did not allow disks to be very unique.10-THE APPLE IIGS
Apple IIGS ‘Woz’ edition – Photo credit: Tony Diaz THE APPLE II EVOLVES. While the capabilities of the Apple II slowly advanced as it changed from the II up through the IIc, the one thing that remained essentially unchanged was the 6502 microprocessor that controlled it. Even though the 65c02 had more commands than the 6502, as an 8-bit processor it was inherently limited to directly2-THE APPLE-1
Apple-1 at Smithsonian. At the Homebrew Computer club in Palo Alto, California (in Silicon Valley), Steve Wozniak, a 26 year old employee of Hewlett-Packard and a long-time digital electronics hacker, had been wanting to build a computer of his own for a long time. For years he had designed many on paper, and even written FORTRAN compilers and BASIC interpreters for these theoretical machines 9–DISK EVOLUTION / THE APPLE IIC PLUS Apple Disk IIc drive released with the Apple IIc – Photo credit: personal. With the release of the Apple IIc in April 1984 came an external Disk II drive that was designed to plug into the new disk port in the back of the IIc, and was the same color and design as theIIc case.
PAGE 13 – THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! After nearly ten years of managing this site with standard tools, I’ve got it translated into a different platform. WordPress will provide the flexibility toCASSETTES ARE COOL
Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe has been archiving this under-represented aspect of Apple II history on his web site. He has been cataloging as many early cassette-based Apple II programs as he can find, and posts an audio file of the program, if possible. THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! Well, hundreds of readers have asked me, nay, begged me for this, so I decided to go along with their request. If you have Minecraft (Java edition, or “real” Minecraft as us old-timers call it) and know how to use MCEdit to cut and paste things into world files, here is your opportunity to get your own copy of the Apple IIe (and ImageWriter printer and modem and disk drive, etc., etc.). BOOK - THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! The dedication to this level of detail and research shows that this book is truly a labor of love.”. The book is published by Variant Press, is 565 pages long (including the appendices and index), and was released in December 2013. It can be ordered online from Amazon here, or from Barnes & Noble here. If you want to get it from a local book FILES - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Files. Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works justfine. Blog posts.
ABOUT APPLE II HISTORY About Apple II History. My name is Steven Weyhrich, and I am a family practice physician from Omaha, Nebraska. My Apple II History has been available since the early 1990s, first appearing on the online service GEnie, then in user group newsletters. My experience with the Apple II started in the early 1980s, and includes most models from Apple SPOT - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Spot Spotlight. There have been many personalities who have had an influence on the Apple II world throughout the years, either because they contributed to hardware, software, or increased understanding of how some aspect of the computer worked. DON WORTH & BENEATH APPLE DOS Don Worth & Beneath Apple DOS. I would consider this book to be one of the landmark publications during the Apple II era. It provided information about the inner workings of Apple mysterious disk operating system that went far beyond the information that Apple released (which dealt exclusively with how to use the Disk II drive from BASIC, Applesoft or Integer. 3-THE APPLE IISEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG1982-1985
1982 Intel announces the 80286 processor. Kaypro introduces the Kaypro II portable, with 9-inch screen and software included, to compete with the Osborne. The term Internet is first used to describ16-LANGUAGES
It could utilize the lowest 64K of RAM, but could not make use of extended memory on the IIGS. For those who wanted to program in BASIC on the Apple IIGS, some options became available within two years of its release. In February 1988, Absoft released AC/BASIC, a 16 THE COMPETITION, PART 2SEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! Two years ago it was “ KFest Funk “, last year it was “ Week of the KFest “, and this year it was “Rockhurst”, a parody of Marty Robbins “El Paso”. The video stars Ken Gagne, editor of Juiced.GS, the longest running Apple II magazine still in print, and ChrisTorrence, editor of
BOOK - THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! The dedication to this level of detail and research shows that this book is truly a labor of love.”. The book is published by Variant Press, is 565 pages long (including the appendices and index), and was released in December 2013. It can be ordered online from Amazon here, or from Barnes & Noble here. If you want to get it from a local book FILES - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Files. Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works justfine. Blog posts.
SPOT - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Spot Spotlight. There have been many personalities who have had an influence on the Apple II world throughout the years, either because they contributed to hardware, software, or increased understanding of how some aspect of the computer worked. 3-THE APPLE IISEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG1982-1985
1982 Intel announces the 80286 processor. Kaypro introduces the Kaypro II portable, with 9-inch screen and software included, to compete with the Osborne. The term Internet is first used to describ16-LANGUAGES
It could utilize the lowest 64K of RAM, but could not make use of extended memory on the IIGS. For those who wanted to program in BASIC on the Apple IIGS, some options became available within two years of its release. In February 1988, Absoft released AC/BASIC, a 16 DON WORTH & BENEATH APPLE DOS Don Worth & Beneath Apple DOS. I would consider this book to be one of the landmark publications during the Apple II era. It provided information about the inner workings of Apple mysterious disk operating system that went far beyond the information that Apple released (which dealt exclusively with how to use the Disk II drive from BASIC, Applesoft or Integer. 1996-2003SEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG THE COMPETITION, PART 2SEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG SPOT - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Spot Spotlight. There have been many personalities who have had an influence on the Apple II world throughout the years, either because they contributed to hardware, software, or increased understanding of how some aspect of the computer worked.LINKS
Retrocomputing Links. 6502 Enthusiast’s Pages – A listing of web sites that deal with historical aspects of the 6502 processor. Part of www.6502.org, the 6502 microprocessor resource web site. 8-Bit Nirvana – A comprehensive collection of pictures of 8-bit personal computers(German language).
6-THE APPLE II PLUS
COST. The new Apple II Plus, at $1,195, sold for over $100 less than the original Apple II, although it came with more memory and had Applesoft (previously an added expense item) in ROM. A-APPLE II SOFTWARE HITS INTRODUCTION. The magazine Softalk tracked sales of Apple II software during it years of publication from 1980 to 1984. This information was tabulated in a monthly column, “Softalk Presents The Best Sellers”, which included a “Top Thirty” list, as well as top selling programs in several specific categories. Further, in April of each year (1981 through 1984) they presented a list of the CONTACT ME - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Contact Me. I am glad to receive mail from the readers of the Apple II History! In some cases, the mail I’ve received has unlocked for me one additional piece of historical information about the Apple II, and so has actually added to the site in a positive way. There have been others who have been interested in contributing a photo or two to theMuseum.
JANUARY 2021
Posted on January 20, 2021 by Steven Weyhrich. Leave a Comment. Long ago I included a quote from Jerry Manock about what color was used on the Apple II series. Clearly, the correct answer is “Pantone 453” like he said, right? Well, perhaps it’s not that simple. Ben Zotto did some deeper research, and posted. Category: Apple II. Blog posts.1996-2003
1996-2003. 1996 1996 January. GEnieLamp A2Pro ceases publication.. II Alive ceases publication. Juiced.GS magazine begins publication.. Two surviving prototypes of the “Mark Twain” Apple IIGS (cancelled at the last minute at the September 1991 user group satellite conference) are discovered in different places around the country and discussedonline.
15-DOS 3.3, PRODOS & BEYOND In August of 1980, Apple released an upgrade for DOS, to version 3.3. This upgrade was an important one. It consisted of not only a new System Master disk, but a hardware upgrade chip as well. The original disk drive had been designed with the ability to read and write 35tracks of
BOB BISHOP - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Released originally by SoftTape and later included by Apple on their early DOS disks, APPLE-VISION used a shape table to animate the dancing man and a tone-generator subroutine to play the music. The program was written by a programmer named Bob Bishop. He was the keynote speaker at KansasFest 2011, and his talk discussed his historywith the
1978-1981
1978 Exidy sells the Sorcerer ($895), with a Z-80, 8K RAM, 12K ROM, and serial, parallel, and cassette interfaces. It could use plug-in ROM cartridges and had user-definable characters. Epson relea THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! Two years ago it was “ KFest Funk “, last year it was “ Week of the KFest “, and this year it was “Rockhurst”, a parody of Marty Robbins “El Paso”. The video stars Ken Gagne, editor of Juiced.GS, the longest running Apple II magazine still in print, and ChrisTorrence, editor of
BOOK - THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! The dedication to this level of detail and research shows that this book is truly a labor of love.”. The book is published by Variant Press, is 565 pages long (including the appendices and index), and was released in December 2013. It can be ordered online from Amazon here, or from Barnes & Noble here. If you want to get it from a local book FILES - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Files. Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works justfine. Blog posts.
SPOT - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Spot Spotlight. There have been many personalities who have had an influence on the Apple II world throughout the years, either because they contributed to hardware, software, or increased understanding of how some aspect of the computer worked. 3-THE APPLE IISEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG1982-1985
1982 Intel announces the 80286 processor. Kaypro introduces the Kaypro II portable, with 9-inch screen and software included, to compete with the Osborne. The term Internet is first used to describ16-LANGUAGES
It could utilize the lowest 64K of RAM, but could not make use of extended memory on the IIGS. For those who wanted to program in BASIC on the Apple IIGS, some options became available within two years of its release. In February 1988, Absoft released AC/BASIC, a 16 DON WORTH & BENEATH APPLE DOS Don Worth & Beneath Apple DOS. I would consider this book to be one of the landmark publications during the Apple II era. It provided information about the inner workings of Apple mysterious disk operating system that went far beyond the information that Apple released (which dealt exclusively with how to use the Disk II drive from BASIC, Applesoft or Integer. 1996-2003SEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG THE COMPETITION, PART 2SEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! Two years ago it was “ KFest Funk “, last year it was “ Week of the KFest “, and this year it was “Rockhurst”, a parody of Marty Robbins “El Paso”. The video stars Ken Gagne, editor of Juiced.GS, the longest running Apple II magazine still in print, and ChrisTorrence, editor of
BOOK - THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! The dedication to this level of detail and research shows that this book is truly a labor of love.”. The book is published by Variant Press, is 565 pages long (including the appendices and index), and was released in December 2013. It can be ordered online from Amazon here, or from Barnes & Noble here. If you want to get it from a local book FILES - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Files. Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works justfine. Blog posts.
SPOT - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Spot Spotlight. There have been many personalities who have had an influence on the Apple II world throughout the years, either because they contributed to hardware, software, or increased understanding of how some aspect of the computer worked. 3-THE APPLE IISEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG1982-1985
1982 Intel announces the 80286 processor. Kaypro introduces the Kaypro II portable, with 9-inch screen and software included, to compete with the Osborne. The term Internet is first used to describ16-LANGUAGES
It could utilize the lowest 64K of RAM, but could not make use of extended memory on the IIGS. For those who wanted to program in BASIC on the Apple IIGS, some options became available within two years of its release. In February 1988, Absoft released AC/BASIC, a 16 DON WORTH & BENEATH APPLE DOS Don Worth & Beneath Apple DOS. I would consider this book to be one of the landmark publications during the Apple II era. It provided information about the inner workings of Apple mysterious disk operating system that went far beyond the information that Apple released (which dealt exclusively with how to use the Disk II drive from BASIC, Applesoft or Integer. 1996-2003SEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG THE COMPETITION, PART 2SEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG SPOT - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Spot Spotlight. There have been many personalities who have had an influence on the Apple II world throughout the years, either because they contributed to hardware, software, or increased understanding of how some aspect of the computer worked.LINKS
Retrocomputing Links. 6502 Enthusiast’s Pages – A listing of web sites that deal with historical aspects of the 6502 processor. Part of www.6502.org, the 6502 microprocessor resource web site. 8-Bit Nirvana – A comprehensive collection of pictures of 8-bit personal computers(German language).
6-THE APPLE II PLUS
COST. The new Apple II Plus, at $1,195, sold for over $100 less than the original Apple II, although it came with more memory and had Applesoft (previously an added expense item) in ROM. A-APPLE II SOFTWARE HITS INTRODUCTION. The magazine Softalk tracked sales of Apple II software during it years of publication from 1980 to 1984. This information was tabulated in a monthly column, “Softalk Presents The Best Sellers”, which included a “Top Thirty” list, as well as top selling programs in several specific categories. Further, in April of each year (1981 through 1984) they presented a list of the3-THE APPLE II
Only the Altair 8800 came with just 256 bytes of memory, so we have to account for the entire 64K memory space that the 6502 chip in the Apple II can handle. There is a cabinet sitting on top of cabinet “00”, and it is laid out in the same fashion with its 256 slots in sixteen rows. This is cabinet “01”, and on top of that one is cabinet “02”; this continues on up until we reach CONTACT ME - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Contact Me. I am glad to receive mail from the readers of the Apple II History! In some cases, the mail I’ve received has unlocked for me one additional piece of historical information about the Apple II, and so has actually added to the site in a positive way. There have been others who have been interested in contributing a photo or two to theMuseum.
JANUARY 2021
Posted on January 20, 2021 by Steven Weyhrich. Leave a Comment. Long ago I included a quote from Jerry Manock about what color was used on the Apple II series. Clearly, the correct answer is “Pantone 453” like he said, right? Well, perhaps it’s not that simple. Ben Zotto did some deeper research, and posted. Category: Apple II. Blog posts. 15-DOS 3.3, PRODOS & BEYOND In August of 1980, Apple released an upgrade for DOS, to version 3.3. This upgrade was an important one. It consisted of not only a new System Master disk, but a hardware upgrade chip as well. The original disk drive had been designed with the ability to read and write 35tracks of
BOB BISHOP - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Released originally by SoftTape and later included by Apple on their early DOS disks, APPLE-VISION used a shape table to animate the dancing man and a tone-generator subroutine to play the music. The program was written by a programmer named Bob Bishop. He was the keynote speaker at KansasFest 2011, and his talk discussed his historywith the
19-APPLEWORKS
AppleWorks screen shot – Photo credit: Ken Gagne. AppleWorks‘ user interface was designed with menu bars, rather than the older command line interface (such as the one used in Applesoft, Integer BASIC, and the Monitor).Apple’s own researchers had put human subjects in front of a computer keyboard to learn what was easiest to use. BOOK - THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! The dedication to this level of detail and research shows that this book is truly a labor of love.”. The book is published by Variant Press, is 565 pages long (including the appendices and index), and was released in December 2013. It can be ordered online from Amazon here, or from Barnes & Noble here. If you want to get it from a local book FILES - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Files. Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works justfine. Blog posts.
LINKS
Retrocomputing Links. 6502 Enthusiast’s Pages – A listing of web sites that deal with historical aspects of the 6502 processor. Part of www.6502.org, the 6502 microprocessor resource web site. 8-Bit Nirvana – A comprehensive collection of pictures of 8-bit personal computers(German language).
A-APPLE II SOFTWARE HITSSEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG1982-1985
1982 Intel announces the 80286 processor. Kaypro introduces the Kaypro II portable, with 9-inch screen and software included, to compete with the Osborne. The term Internet is first used to describ 1982 - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG 1982 Most Popular Software Of 1982 (Softalk Reader’s Poll) The Top Thirty: Choplifter by Gorlin, Broderbund; arcade. “Fly your chopper to rescue 64 hostages, avoiding interceptor jets, DON WORTH & BENEATH APPLE DOS Don Worth & Beneath Apple DOS. I would consider this book to be one of the landmark publications during the Apple II era. It provided information about the inner workings of Apple mysterious disk operating system that went far beyond the information that Apple released (which dealt exclusively with how to use the Disk II drive from BASIC, Applesoft or Integer.1978-80
1978-80 MOST POPULAR SOFTWARE Of 1978-1980 (Softalk Reader’s Poll) The Top Ten. Super Invader by M. Hata, Creative Computing; arcade. “Progenitor of home-arcades. Still good hi-res, still a challenge. Softalk readers’ Most Popular Program of 1978-1980.” This was an Apple version of “Space Invaders”. 1996-2003SEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG BOB BISHOP - APPLE2HISTORY.ORGSEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG BOOK - THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! The dedication to this level of detail and research shows that this book is truly a labor of love.”. The book is published by Variant Press, is 565 pages long (including the appendices and index), and was released in December 2013. It can be ordered online from Amazon here, or from Barnes & Noble here. If you want to get it from a local book FILES - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Files. Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works justfine. Blog posts.
LINKS
Retrocomputing Links. 6502 Enthusiast’s Pages – A listing of web sites that deal with historical aspects of the 6502 processor. Part of www.6502.org, the 6502 microprocessor resource web site. 8-Bit Nirvana – A comprehensive collection of pictures of 8-bit personal computers(German language).
A-APPLE II SOFTWARE HITSSEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG1982-1985
1982 Intel announces the 80286 processor. Kaypro introduces the Kaypro II portable, with 9-inch screen and software included, to compete with the Osborne. The term Internet is first used to describ 1982 - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG 1982 Most Popular Software Of 1982 (Softalk Reader’s Poll) The Top Thirty: Choplifter by Gorlin, Broderbund; arcade. “Fly your chopper to rescue 64 hostages, avoiding interceptor jets, DON WORTH & BENEATH APPLE DOS Don Worth & Beneath Apple DOS. I would consider this book to be one of the landmark publications during the Apple II era. It provided information about the inner workings of Apple mysterious disk operating system that went far beyond the information that Apple released (which dealt exclusively with how to use the Disk II drive from BASIC, Applesoft or Integer.1978-80
1978-80 MOST POPULAR SOFTWARE Of 1978-1980 (Softalk Reader’s Poll) The Top Ten. Super Invader by M. Hata, Creative Computing; arcade. “Progenitor of home-arcades. Still good hi-res, still a challenge. Softalk readers’ Most Popular Program of 1978-1980.” This was an Apple version of “Space Invaders”. 1996-2003SEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG BOB BISHOP - APPLE2HISTORY.ORGSEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORGLINKS
Retrocomputing Links. 6502 Enthusiast’s Pages – A listing of web sites that deal with historical aspects of the 6502 processor. Part of www.6502.org, the 6502 microprocessor resource web site. 8-Bit Nirvana – A comprehensive collection of pictures of 8-bit personal computers(German language).
ABOUT APPLE II HISTORY About Apple II History. My name is Steven Weyhrich, and I am a family practice physician from Omaha, Nebraska. My Apple II History has been available since the early 1990s, first appearing on the online service GEnie, then in user group newsletters. My experience with the Apple II started in the early 1980s, and includes most models from Apple CONTACT ME - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Contact Me. I am glad to receive mail from the readers of the Apple II History! In some cases, the mail I’ve received has unlocked for me one additional piece of historical information about the Apple II, and so has actually added to the site in a positive way. There have been others who have been interested in contributing a photo or two to theMuseum.
6-THE APPLE II PLUS
COST. The new Apple II Plus, at $1,195, sold for over $100 less than the original Apple II, although it came with more memory and had Applesoft (previously an added expense item) in ROM.3-THE APPLE II
Only the Altair 8800 came with just 256 bytes of memory, so we have to account for the entire 64K memory space that the 6502 chip in the Apple II can handle. There is a cabinet sitting on top of cabinet “00”, and it is laid out in the same fashion with its 256 slots in sixteen rows. This is cabinet “01”, and on top of that one is cabinet “02”; this continues on up until we reach1978-80
1978-80 MOST POPULAR SOFTWARE Of 1978-1980 (Softalk Reader’s Poll) The Top Ten. Super Invader by M. Hata, Creative Computing; arcade. “Progenitor of home-arcades. Still good hi-res, still a challenge. Softalk readers’ Most Popular Program of 1978-1980.” This was an Apple version of “Space Invaders”. BOB BISHOP - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Released originally by SoftTape and later included by Apple on their early DOS disks, APPLE-VISION used a shape table to animate the dancing man and a tone-generator subroutine to play the music. The program was written by a programmer named Bob Bishop. He was the keynote speaker at KansasFest 2011, and his talk discussed his historywith the
1981 - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG The Top Thirty: Raster Blaster by Budge, BudgeCo; arcade. “First realistic pinball game. Softalk readers’ Most Popular Program of 1981.”. Castle Wolfenstein by Warner, Muse; strategy game. “First game to fuse successfully strategy, home-arcade, fantasy. Escape from Nazi stronghold with secret plans. Room layout changes with each newgame.
19-APPLEWORKS
AppleWorks screen shot – Photo credit: Ken Gagne. AppleWorks‘ user interface was designed with menu bars, rather than the older command line interface (such as the one used in Applesoft, Integer BASIC, and the Monitor).Apple’s own researchers had put human subjects in front of a computer keyboard to learn what was easiest to use. THE APPLE STORY, PART 1 The Apple Story, Part 1. BYTE Magazine ran some articles called “Guide To The Apple” in the December 1984 issue. Part of that guide included the first of a two-part interview with Steve Wozniak. Here follows a reproduction of that article, reprinted with permission: Gregg Williams is a senior technical editor at BYTE. BOOK - THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! The dedication to this level of detail and research shows that this book is truly a labor of love.”. The book is published by Variant Press, is 565 pages long (including the appendices and index), and was released in December 2013. It can be ordered online from Amazon here, or from Barnes & Noble here. If you want to get it from a local book FILES - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Files. Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works justfine. Blog posts.
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Retrocomputing Links. 6502 Enthusiast’s Pages – A listing of web sites that deal with historical aspects of the 6502 processor. Part of www.6502.org, the 6502 microprocessor resource web site. 8-Bit Nirvana – A comprehensive collection of pictures of 8-bit personal computers(German language).
A-APPLE II SOFTWARE HITSSEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG1982-1985
1982 Intel announces the 80286 processor. Kaypro introduces the Kaypro II portable, with 9-inch screen and software included, to compete with the Osborne. The term Internet is first used to describ 1982 - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG 1982 Most Popular Software Of 1982 (Softalk Reader’s Poll) The Top Thirty: Choplifter by Gorlin, Broderbund; arcade. “Fly your chopper to rescue 64 hostages, avoiding interceptor jets, DON WORTH & BENEATH APPLE DOS Don Worth & Beneath Apple DOS. I would consider this book to be one of the landmark publications during the Apple II era. It provided information about the inner workings of Apple mysterious disk operating system that went far beyond the information that Apple released (which dealt exclusively with how to use the Disk II drive from BASIC, Applesoft or Integer.1978-80
1978-80 MOST POPULAR SOFTWARE Of 1978-1980 (Softalk Reader’s Poll) The Top Ten. Super Invader by M. Hata, Creative Computing; arcade. “Progenitor of home-arcades. Still good hi-res, still a challenge. Softalk readers’ Most Popular Program of 1978-1980.” This was an Apple version of “Space Invaders”. 1996-2003SEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG BOB BISHOP - APPLE2HISTORY.ORGSEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG BOOK - THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"! The dedication to this level of detail and research shows that this book is truly a labor of love.”. The book is published by Variant Press, is 565 pages long (including the appendices and index), and was released in December 2013. It can be ordered online from Amazon here, or from Barnes & Noble here. If you want to get it from a local book FILES - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Files. Here are found files that are scans or reproductions of selected old Apple II manuals, books that are usually very hard to obtain. The scans are in PDF format, and you may need to download Adobe Reader to view these files. On the Macintosh, Preview works justfine. Blog posts.
LINKS
Retrocomputing Links. 6502 Enthusiast’s Pages – A listing of web sites that deal with historical aspects of the 6502 processor. Part of www.6502.org, the 6502 microprocessor resource web site. 8-Bit Nirvana – A comprehensive collection of pictures of 8-bit personal computers(German language).
A-APPLE II SOFTWARE HITSSEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG1982-1985
1982 Intel announces the 80286 processor. Kaypro introduces the Kaypro II portable, with 9-inch screen and software included, to compete with the Osborne. The term Internet is first used to describ 1982 - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG 1982 Most Popular Software Of 1982 (Softalk Reader’s Poll) The Top Thirty: Choplifter by Gorlin, Broderbund; arcade. “Fly your chopper to rescue 64 hostages, avoiding interceptor jets, DON WORTH & BENEATH APPLE DOS Don Worth & Beneath Apple DOS. I would consider this book to be one of the landmark publications during the Apple II era. It provided information about the inner workings of Apple mysterious disk operating system that went far beyond the information that Apple released (which dealt exclusively with how to use the Disk II drive from BASIC, Applesoft or Integer.1978-80
1978-80 MOST POPULAR SOFTWARE Of 1978-1980 (Softalk Reader’s Poll) The Top Ten. Super Invader by M. Hata, Creative Computing; arcade. “Progenitor of home-arcades. Still good hi-res, still a challenge. Softalk readers’ Most Popular Program of 1978-1980.” This was an Apple version of “Space Invaders”. 1996-2003SEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORG BOB BISHOP - APPLE2HISTORY.ORGSEE MORE ON APPLE2HISTORY.ORGLINKS
Retrocomputing Links. 6502 Enthusiast’s Pages – A listing of web sites that deal with historical aspects of the 6502 processor. Part of www.6502.org, the 6502 microprocessor resource web site. 8-Bit Nirvana – A comprehensive collection of pictures of 8-bit personal computers(German language).
ABOUT APPLE II HISTORY About Apple II History. My name is Steven Weyhrich, and I am a family practice physician from Omaha, Nebraska. My Apple II History has been available since the early 1990s, first appearing on the online service GEnie, then in user group newsletters. My experience with the Apple II started in the early 1980s, and includes most models from Apple CONTACT ME - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Contact Me. I am glad to receive mail from the readers of the Apple II History! In some cases, the mail I’ve received has unlocked for me one additional piece of historical information about the Apple II, and so has actually added to the site in a positive way. There have been others who have been interested in contributing a photo or two to theMuseum.
6-THE APPLE II PLUS
COST. The new Apple II Plus, at $1,195, sold for over $100 less than the original Apple II, although it came with more memory and had Applesoft (previously an added expense item) in ROM.3-THE APPLE II
Only the Altair 8800 came with just 256 bytes of memory, so we have to account for the entire 64K memory space that the 6502 chip in the Apple II can handle. There is a cabinet sitting on top of cabinet “00”, and it is laid out in the same fashion with its 256 slots in sixteen rows. This is cabinet “01”, and on top of that one is cabinet “02”; this continues on up until we reach1978-80
1978-80 MOST POPULAR SOFTWARE Of 1978-1980 (Softalk Reader’s Poll) The Top Ten. Super Invader by M. Hata, Creative Computing; arcade. “Progenitor of home-arcades. Still good hi-res, still a challenge. Softalk readers’ Most Popular Program of 1978-1980.” This was an Apple version of “Space Invaders”. BOB BISHOP - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG Released originally by SoftTape and later included by Apple on their early DOS disks, APPLE-VISION used a shape table to animate the dancing man and a tone-generator subroutine to play the music. The program was written by a programmer named Bob Bishop. He was the keynote speaker at KansasFest 2011, and his talk discussed his historywith the
1981 - APPLE2HISTORY.ORG The Top Thirty: Raster Blaster by Budge, BudgeCo; arcade. “First realistic pinball game. Softalk readers’ Most Popular Program of 1981.”. Castle Wolfenstein by Warner, Muse; strategy game. “First game to fuse successfully strategy, home-arcade, fantasy. Escape from Nazi stronghold with secret plans. Room layout changes with each newgame.
19-APPLEWORKS
AppleWorks screen shot – Photo credit: Ken Gagne. AppleWorks‘ user interface was designed with menu bars, rather than the older command line interface (such as the one used in Applesoft, Integer BASIC, and the Monitor).Apple’s own researchers had put human subjects in front of a computer keyboard to learn what was easiest to use. THE APPLE STORY, PART 1 The Apple Story, Part 1. BYTE Magazine ran some articles called “Guide To The Apple” in the December 1984 issue. Part of that guide included the first of a two-part interview with Steve Wozniak. Here follows a reproduction of that article, reprinted with permission: Gregg Williams is a senior technical editor at BYTE. THE STORY OF "THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTER"!MENU
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* Wreck Of The Apple ][ __Posted on September 2, 2017 by Steven Weyhrich__ Leave a Comment
Well, hundreds of readers have asked me, nay, begged me for this, so I decided to go along with their request. If you have Minecraft (Java edition, or “real” Minecraft as us old-timers call it) and know how to use MCEdit to cut and paste things into world files, here is your opportunity to get your OWN copy of the Apple IIe (and ImageWriter printer and modem and disk drive, etc., etc.). Just click on the link on my download page, and it can all be yours! > Minecraft Apple IIe and Skyblock schematic>
KANSASFEST 2017 POSTLUDE __Posted on July 26, 2017 by Steven Weyhrich__ 3 Comments
I know that my posts here in the past few years are often just saying “Hey, I was at KansasFest” and not much else, but, hey, what can I say, there’s not much new in Apple II history these days. That being said, I’m going to feature something written by someone else. My KFest roommate this year was Dave Rogers, a newcomer to the event. He writes a blog, “Nice Marmot”, and has a good, comprehensive discussion of his experiences at this year’s event. You can see what he thought about it here , and it is well wortha read.
Dave also made a discovery that passed me by completely. Way back when, Brooke Boering had a company called Vagabondo Enterprises, and created a visual programming language called CEEMAC . It allowed creation of hi-res graphics animations on the Apple II. Back around 1982 or so, he released a demo disk that highlighted the capabilities of CEEMAC, and called that demo “Fire Organ”. It was intended to be a self-running demo, with some ability to interact and change how itworked.
I had a copy of Fire Organ back in the day, but never spent the money to get the CEEMAC programming language disk. What does this have to do with KFest? Well, for the Apple IIe that I brought along, I neglected to include any disks to boot it with. Or I _thought_ I had not done so. When I plugged it in and turned it on, I discovered that it _did_ boot up something, and found there was a copy (so I thought) of Fire Organ in the disk drive. Oh, cool, I thought; I’ll just run this as an interesting visual demo in my room here. (Okay, green-screen monitor, so less interesting than it couldhave been, but…)
Dave saw this at some point during the week, and took a closer look at the disk. He pointed out to me that this was _not_ the Fire Organ demo, but was a copy of CEEMAC v1.61 (beta), meaning that this was actually the programming language used to create the Fire Organ demo! I literally have _no _idea where I got this, but he made sure it got into the hands of 4am, so it could be imaged for the Internet Archive, as it appeared to be different from the version that was alreadythere.
So, thanks to Dave’s sharp eye, there is another version of CEEMAC available for the world to look at. I appreciate his enthusiasm, and also appreciate the work done by Brook Boering years ago to create an amazing graphical programming language for the Apple II. And, although I don’t do much programming these days, and do not do any hardware hacking, I _do _still have a strange urge to create song parodies. Two years ago it was “KFest Funk “, last year it was “Week of the KFest “, and this year it was “Rockhurst”, a parody of Marty Robbins “El Paso”. The video stars Ken Gagne, editor of Juiced.GS , the longest running Apple II magazine still in print, and Chris Torrence, editor of _Assembly Lines: The Complete Book_.
MINECRAFT DÉJÀ VU – HAVEN’T WE BEEN HERE BEFORE?? __Posted on April 5, 2017 by Steven Weyhrich__ 4 Comments
Waaaay back in 2011, I got started playing this fascinating game, Minecraft . And it didn’t take long for me to decide to do a build that looked like a giant Apple II Plus (see the link at the end of this article). With time, the game evolved and improved, and more diverse blocks were added. But for the longest time, I didn’t really do anything with my Apple II. Then in 2014 I decided to attack the project again, this time with a larger scale Apple IIe. I did the entire computer, an Apple Modem 1200, and a telephone, all built in Survival mode; for those who have not played the game, that’s where you have to obtain the blocks you build with manually, but mining them and crafting them. I set the project aside for another three years, and then earlier this year I went back to it, but decided to complete it by using Creative mode, where you can just give yourself all the blocks you want; it makes the process faster. The result is the above video, which includes not just the computer, modem, and telephone, but also an ImageWriter I printer (producing a Print Shop-style banner), a joystick, a DuoDisk drive, and a Monitor II, with blocky lo-res-style graphics displayed. And to complete the project, I built my old favorite stereo system from college in the1970s.
Why did I do it? I don’t know, except that it was satisfying to complete the project I’d started long ago, and do it better than the old one I did back in the early days of Minecraft. I may not be doing any programming on the Apple II these days, but this game gave me a chance to be creative in a different fashion. BTW, here is the link to the original 2011 video. If you live in a part of the world that doesn’t allow the background music I picked back then, which was copyrighted music, you may not be allowed to viewthis.
KANSASFEST 2016
__Posted on July 23, 2016 by Steven Weyhrich__ 1 Comment
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,
that runs using the same game engine as Lawless Legends (see the Legends web site for details on how to get that).* PERCOL-8
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a networkable Apple II emulator that not only runs old Apple II software, but uses special graphics software to manipulate the old screens to you can get a 3D type of effect, or even have two different people help play the same game at the same time. * How the Internet Archive is making it even easier to run old Apple II software right in your web browser. * How Apple II software deprotector 4am (a great contributor to the Internet Archive collection) came up with a program to allow you to automatically remove copy protection from most old software (if you have any old uncopyable disks). * More and more about emulators than I’ve heard at KFest for years and much more than I have time to discuss here. You can look for videos of many of the sessions on YouTube; here is the talk I gave about the history of online services here: We had the privilege of a visit this year by David Pierini of Cult of Mac, who wrote _five_ stories about the event: * Apple II fans find themselves in hog heaven at KansasFest * This guy makes badly aged Apple computers sparkle again * KansasFest solder session proves there’s fun in melting metal * KansasFest is a second-chance childhood for one programmer * KansasFest: Final notes from ‘Nerdvana’ And I was able to complete another parody video about the event, this year with lots of video from the event: Not only this, but we will be having it again next year, July 18-23, 2017. Come next year, and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the AppleII !
EDIBLE APPLE II
__Posted on August 17, 2015 by Steven Weyhrich__ Leave a Comment
A few years ago I saw posted info on Geek Culture/Joy of Techon
how to make a cake that looked like the Smithsonian Apple-1 computer: Now, Mike Maginnis has posted in the Apple II Enthusiasts group on Facebook a link to pictures of an Apple II wedding cake.
I like the look of it, but wish they included info on how it was made. What a dessert at KFest 2016 this would make! LAINE NOONEY AND APPLE HISTORY __Posted on August 12, 2015 by Steven Weyhrich__ 1 Comment
This entire web site is focused on preserving and telling the story of microcomputers, focused with insane depth on the Apple II. I’ve been telling it for 20 plus years, and have a book about it. So I know what _I_ know quite well, and if any of you who have taken the time to either read the story on this web site or in the book _also_ knowwhat I know.
But I always enjoy learning more about the era of the Apple II and its competition and getting new information or new points of view. The _Open Apple _ podcast, which focuses on news and interviews about the Apple II is often a source of stories that expand my knowledge, and episode #49 for July 2015 is a _particularly_ fascinating listen. They have an extended conversation with Laine Nooney , a person who is way too young to have been involved with the Apple II when it was new and exciting. Her research for a dissertation brought her to look into Online Systems / Sierra Online, as well as with other software companies of the day, and the conversation they have drifts over into the impact of the computer on homes and families, and what she has learned about it. When I think I know so much that there is not much more to learn, a gem like this interview comes along, and I realize levels of computer history that go beyond my extremely specific area of knowledge. It is _well_ worth a listen. Addendum: Here is a linkto Nooney’s
research on Sierra Online, as much as she has made publicly available at this time. Read it. KFEST, AS SEEN BY AN OUTSIDER __Posted on August 1, 2015 by Steven Weyhrich__ 2 Comments
While at KansasFest this year, we had two new people show up, for the purpose of doing a news storyabout
the event. I had not heard of their publication, Motherboard , prior to this, and I will admit I was a little skeptical about how this would turn out. I have seen interviews and stories before that were done with a particular purpose in mind, and sometimes the final result is not flattering. I must applaud the writer of the piece, Jason Koebler, for a job well
done. He did capture the essence of the event, and did it as someone who has not been there before, and in fact someone who does not really know anything about the Apple II. You can read the article here. The style reminds me of the audio stories I hear on NPR’s weekly program, This American Life , which I mean as a compliment, as I feel that most of those stories as well done, and good listens.CHANGES COMING
__Posted on June 27, 2015 by Steven Weyhrich__ Leave a Comment
The Apple II History web site is undergoing some changes in the near future, not only a change in appearance, but also a change as far as how to get these posts when I put them up. If you are using an RSS reader to get these posts, change the feed address from “feeds.feedburner.com/apple2history” to “https://apple2history.org/feed/”. If you do not make the change, you will not see further updates in messages. Thank you for your continued interest in this web site! KFEST 2015 IS COMING! __Posted on June 16, 2015 by Steven Weyhrich__ 1 Comment
That annual Apple II conference is only a month away, and yes, I’ve got another music parody for it: Come down and help me make it better with live action! ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB… __Posted on April 17, 2015 by Steven Weyhrich__ Leave a Comment
Two podcasts caught my attention and enjoyment recently. There are a number of podcasts I enjoy, but these two were particularly interesting, from an Apple II history point of view. First of all, _Welcome to Macintosh_ (yes, I know, whaaaaaat?) done by Mark Bramhill is a podcast primarily about more modern Mac issues. But episode #3 “Trip to alphaSyntauri” from April 2, 2015, is all about the famous synthesizer made to work with the Mountain Hardware Sound Card for the original Apple II. The episode gives the history of how a keyboard synthesizer was built to use with this card, and became one of the first inexpensive synthesizers available to the public. The podcast is well done, and actually sounds like something I would hear as a segment on a National Public Radio program. The second podcast is from ANTIC, The Atari 8-Bit Podcast . I never had an Atari computer to play with, but this podcast makes me feel like I should have. The hosts do an _amazing_ job of getting interviews with luminaries in the Atari world, and what I hear is usually interesting, despite the lack of Apple II connection. Episode 29features
David Cramer of the Western Design Center, which is still to this day manufacturing and selling the venerable 6502, 65c02, and 65816 microprocessors. The discussion does involve the Apple II and IIGS to some extent, and well worth a listen.1 2 3
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