Vintage Computer Festival East 10 – April 17-19, 2015 in Wall, New Jersey Click HERE for details Vintage Computer Festival South East – May 2-3, 2015 in Roswell, Georgia Click HERE for details Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 10 – August 29-30, 2015 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois Click HERE for details (Facebook link)
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Brian Edwards of the UK Mirror is a [colorful metaphor]
Demonstrating he’s not much of an historical fact-checker, Brian Edwards dribbles out a hate piece that will probably rile you up too.
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Jeff Atwood reminisces on how Beagle Bros influences his coding
Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror posted an article reminiscing how his experience with Beagle Bros software still influences his programming today. We suspect Jeff isn’t alone in that regard. Check it out.
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Open Apple #44 (February 2015) : Beagle Bros Reunion Roundtable, Andrew Roughan
This month on Open Apple, we sit down with Beagles Bros Randy Brandt, Mark Simonsen, Tom Weishaar, and Alan Bird. We share stories of Beagle’s development, poke lots of fun at each other, and check in on where everyone is now. We spread the love for Oz KFest with Andrew Roughan, and amazingly resist the […]
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Retro Computing Roundtable #93 released
Michael Mulhern posted via Facebook: In a host packed Episode 93, Earl, Carrington, Paul, Michael, Jack, and Ken discuss the controversial topic of “Are We Cheating Cheaters?” Flash storage devices, Internet modems, multi-cartridges with entire software libraries, super RAM add-ons, LCD flat panels – what’s so retro about all that? Also discussed is the saving […]
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John and Brenda Romero, Gary Koffler rescue Bob Bishop’s Apple legacy
The word went out on Facebook via Gary Koffler that the late Bob Bishop’s Apple II collection might be heading for the dumpster. As practically every Apple II user knows, Bob Bishop was a legendary early Apple employee, programmer and technical trailblazer. The thought of his collection lost to time in some California landfill couldn’t […]
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Get ready for OzKFest, April 17-19 in Keysborough, Melbourne AU
OzKFest is going ahead April 17-19 in Keysborough, Melbourne. There are 12 people already confirmed to attend. The website has just been updated with session teasers and those of us on the Apple II Oz mailing list are eagerly making plans with the expectation that this will again be a great event. We encourage you […]
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Brian Picchi reviews the Apple II, David Murray thinks the Macintosh may have been a mistake
Brian Picchi David Murray