Archive for December of 2006

Apple Theme Song

December 29, 2006
From the YouTube.com description:
"This is an excerpt from Apple's 1984 Annual Shareholders Meeting. Just before John Sculley and Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh and the new Lisa's, this video was played. It was the company theme song at the time."

Watch it now:
Apple Theme Song

A Man and His Apple

December 27, 2006
A brief article by Robert Rosenthal in a series titled "Killer Campaigns" at the Passaic Parc, Inc. website. (Now www.themothersofinvention.com) It begins:
"This was one of Apple Computer's first ads.
Curiously, we found it in the May, 1978 issue of 'Playboy' after having read that Apple ran some of its earliest ads in America's skin magazine of record.
Apple's more sophisticated work would come a little later. But check out this little ad's prophetic opening sentence: 'The era of the personal computer is here.'"

Read more:
A Man and His Apple

This Week in Apple History

December 19, 2006
Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The December 19-31 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "ScriptX, So Long Taligent, Apple Buys NeXT".

December 19-31: ScriptX, So Long Taligent, Apple Buys NeXT

Alfred's Apple II Visualizes Music

December 18, 2006
Another gem from Alfred DiBlasi on YouTube.com. An Apple ][ visualizing music fed in through the cassette port.
"The Apple ][. A work of art by Steve Wozniak. This is some footage from 1992 - it looks like I had a YouTube documentary in mind, even way back then. The audio from the stereo system was run to the "casette in" port on the back of the Apple ][. The Apple listened to the frequency changes via the casette port, and then created the visuals based on the frequency. Incredible and beautiful. Enjoy this classic piece of retro computing! "

Alfred's Apple II Visualizes Music

A2 News and Notes

December 15, 2006
The November, 2006 issue of the A2 News and Notes Newsletter for Apple II fans has been posted by Howard Katz!
This issue:
* A Fake Disk?
* Now Showing On An Apple II Near You!
* ...And How To View It
* Old Home New Service
* Apple Internet
* And Were Live!
* New Digs
* Software News
* Emulation News
* SignOff


A2 News and Notes

This Week in Apple History

December 12, 2006
Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The December 12-18 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Apple Goes Public, 1984 Airs".

December 12-18: Apple Goes Public, 1984 Airs

Alfred Demonstrates the Apple Lisa

December 11, 2006
YouTube.com is at once the worlds largest collection of garbage and the worlds largest collection of treasure. We catagorize this 18 minute Lisa demo as treasure.
"Filmed in 1984, Alfred demonstrates the $10,000 Apple Lisa computer on a tri-state cable channel. This was a very early 'mass introduction' to a system that had a graphical user interface, icons, pull down menus, and a rodential input device called 'a mouse.' Enjoy!"

Alfred Demonstrates the Apple Lisa

This Week in Apple History

December 01, 2006
Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The December 1-11 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Byte Opens, Star Trek Demo, NeXT vs. Be".

December 1-11: Byte Opens, Star Trek Demo, NeXT vs. Be