The Apple Computer Company Partnership Agreement, which established Apple as a partnership between Jobs, Woz and Ron Wayne and was signed by all three co-founders, went for an incredible $1.35 million dollars at a Sotheby’s auction yesterday. Ă‚ Once you add in all the various fees attached to the sale, the final cost weighs in at […]
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Robert Noyce gets a Google Doodle for his 84th birthday
Robert Noyce would have turned 84 today, and Google decided to give him a posthumous birthday present in the form of one of their famous Doodles.Ă‚ Considered one of the inventors of the microchip, Noyce was nicknamed the “Mayor of Silicon Valley”.Ă‚ Noyce co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and then left to co-found Intel with […]
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Online Apple Game Server now online
Egan Ford (aka datajerk of the jerkwerks) today announced that his web-based Online Apple Game Server is open for business. The concept is that games can be served directly to your Apple II as audio files through the machine’s cassette ports. Ford has posted a video tutorial explaining exactly how to get it up and […]
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Call-A.P.P.L.E. releases GEOS CD
This morning, our good friend Bill Martens over at Call-A.P.P.L.E. announced the (re-)release of the GEOS Apple II CD. Containing a wealth of documentation and software, this download weighs in at a hefty 140 MB. GEOS is a graphical user interface for 8-bit computers that was originally developed and released by Berkeley SoftWorks for the […]
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Getting CP/M up and running on the CFFA
CP/M was a popular command line-based operating systems for PCs in the 1980’s, before Microsoft’s MS-DOS took over the platform.Ă‚ It was also available on the Apple II (and III) thanks to the efforts of third-party vendors such as Applied Engineering and Microsoft, who sold the necessary hardware to interested users.Ă‚ CP/M never really took […]
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A2Central now on Google Currents
As of this morning, A2Central is now being published to Google’s new Currents platform. Designed as a personalized digital news magazine in the style of Flipboard, Currents lets you access your favorite news sources in a single app that features an attractive and easy to use interface. To subscribe to A2Central, download and install the […]
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Davex command shell for ProDOS and SOS on Sourceforge
David Schmidt wrote in to advise us that the source and executables for Dave Lyon’s Davex command shell are now hosted via Sourceforge. Davex is an extensible command-line shell, with several commands for common filesystem tasks (e.g. copying, moving, creating, deleting and so much more) that we all wish were built-in to ProDOS and SOS. […]
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Open Apple podcast #10
This month on the Open Apple podcast, Mike and Ken are joined by Rob Kenyon, a two-time KansasFest attendee as well as a professional programmer and 30-year veteran of the Apple II. We talk about how great it is to be a part of the international community of Apple II users, even if none of […]