The 600th episode of the online comic The Joy of Tech features Wozniak, Jobs and an Apple II..

On Accelerate Your Mac’s news page recently, one contribution applicable to the Apple II was regarding nostalgia of old BBS days, specifically the CommuniTree BBS system from 1981. Check out a reproduction of the manual and some printouts of posts here and the hardware requirements are here..

Continuing his theme of TCP/IP based Internet utilities for the Apple IIgs, Ryan Suenaga has released another public beta New Desk Accessory, this one dubbed MailChecker.NDA. MailChecker.NDA reports to the user how much mail is in a POP3 mailbox. Requires System 6.0.1, Marinetti 2.0.1 or later, and a working TCP/IP connection. Like the rest of his software, MailChecker.NDA is available at http://lamp.a2central.com/ryans_software..

The next meeting of the Princeton Apple II Users Group will be held on Friday, October 8 at 7:30 pm. Apple II enthusiasts from New Jersey and beyond are welcome. The meeting will be held in Dave Ciotti’s basement. Topics include the repair of old Applied Engineering hardware..

Gerard Putter has released version 3.2 of Virtual ][, the 8-bit Apple II emulator for Mac OS X. The new version further improves sound quality of the emulated internal speaker, adds a “variable speed” option to speed up lengthy operations, and fixes a bug that could cause valid license codes to be rejected..