Today is the Apple ///’s 34th birthday, and Em Maginnis has used this auspicious date to announce he is starting a new podcast with fellow Apple /// enthusiast Paul Hagstrom. Dedicated to the (you guessed it) Apple /// computer, the ‘Drop /// Inches’ podcast is named tongue in cheek after the infamous troubleshooting step used […]
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Ultra-rare Apple UniFile ‘Twiggy’ drive seen on eBay
For those of you who don’t follow my Twitter account, here’s an exceedingly rare Apple UniFile Twiggy drive to look (drool?) over. It’s up for auction on eBay, starting at USD $3,750 or with a buy it now option of $6,000. Bazinga.
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Bob Cook of Sun Remarketing interviewed
David Greelish, who last month made tech news headlines for his in-depth interview with John Sculley and his troubled relationship with Steve Jobs during their days together at Apple, has posted an audio interview he conducted with Bob Cook. Cook, owner of an early Apple dealership, established Sun Remarketing in 1985 and grew it into […]
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Washington Apple Pi Apple /// DVD Reclassified as Public Domain
Dave Ottalini of the Washington Apple Pi user group announced today on Facebook that their Apple /// DVD, which formerly sold for $45, is now reclassified as public domain. Here’s the text of David’s announcement: Folks – I’d like to let you know that I’ve decided to put the old Apple /// DVD into 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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CFFA3000 driver for Apple /// announced
David Schmidt wrote in to share that his CFFA3000 driver for the Apple /// is now ‘live’ and in beta testing. David’s posting is attached:
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Apple Service Technical Procedures Manuals
Henry Courbis of ReactiveMicro.com has scanned many of the Apple Service Technical Procedures Manuals and provided them to Apple2Scans.net to be hosted.  You can download them here.  A big thanks to Henry for doing this.
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ADTPro 1.1.8 released, now supports LANceGS
Hot on the heels of version 1.1.7, David Schmidt has released an updated ADTPro 1.1.8 with support for the LANceGS Ethernet card. David’s announcement is attached: If you have a LANceGS card from ///SHH Systeme – this release is for you. Thanks to Sean Fahey for lending me his cards, and thanks to Oliver Schmidt […]