Macintosh: Big Step, Small Footprint
Small but legible scans of the March 1984 issue of Computers and Electronics Magazine featuring an article on the first Mac at Jagshouse.com.

Macintosh: Big Step, Small Footprint

Mousehole Report
From 1985, this column By Rusty Hodge, Mousehole BBS, at MacTech.com includes topics such as, New prices, Mass Storage Technology, Apple 20 meg HD prices, and CD Rom, where it is predicted, "As soon as a single producer comes out with a system that can do the same amount of data in an alterable format, CD ROM will die."

Mousehole Report

Steve Wozniak Ventures Out
An interesting interview with Steve Wozniak by Richard J. Newman at U.S. News and World Report.

Steve Wozniak Ventures Out

Apple eMate 300 (Blast From The Past)
A hands on gadget review by Mike Riegel at The Gadgeteer from March 22, 2002. It begins:
"A new crop of PDAs have just been released, and yet another are being groomed for a fall launch - but is the latest and greatest gizmo always the best?
As I have already made my PDA purchase for the near future (the T615), and that device has already been reviewed here, I decided to take a step back and look at a long-forgotten PDA that still has a place is my heart – the Apple eMate 300."

Apple eMate 300 (Blast From The Past)

Give Your Apple II a New Year's Treat
From deep inside the atarimagazines.com archives, we present this article by Gregg Keizer which originally appeared in Compute!, Issue 126, February 1991. It begins:
"Apple II's used to sail off the dealer's shelves during the Christmas season. TVe commercials touted the saving graces of the Apple IIe, the IIc, and latr, the IIGS. Rebates motivated people to stop and shot for an Apple.
All that's history now. Apple's plans for the II line area a rearguard holding action at best. The company can only offer the ideologically correct phrases that promise continued support without any hard evidence that the line has a long-term future outside the classroom."

Give Your Apple II a New Year's Treat

Apple II Emulator Virtual ][ Version 4.3 Released
What's new in version 4.3
This is a bug-fix release.
• Solved an issue in the built-in Spotlight module, which could cause endless rescanning of hard disk image files.
• The Spotlight module now does a better job in recognizing the file system on diskette image files. It used to skip some valid DOS images.
• Improved the compatibility of the A2V2 program; it now supports more types of USB-to-serial adapters.

Virtual ][

Apple Announces Newton Subsidiary
Complementing the addition of a 1997 Newton, Inc. MessagePad 2000 Ad to The Mothership Advertising and Brochure Gallery, we present this original press release, dated May 22, 1997, in which Apple announces the creation of a new company, Newton, Inc., to "focus on computing & communications for mobile users".

Apple Announces Newton Subsidiary

NeXT, OpenStep, and the Triumphant Return of Steve Jobs
The latest interesting Apple history article by the talented Tom Hormby at Low End Mac. This time he tackles the tumultuous mid-to-late 1990's, an era that ultimately ushered in the modern, successful Apple Computer, Inc. as we know it today. Tom Begins:
"From the day of his appointment as Apple CEO in February 1996, Gil Amelio presided over an ailing company. After the near-disastrous reign of Michael Spindler, Amelio promised to change the corporate ethos of Apple."

NeXT, OpenStep, and the Triumphant Return of Steve Jobs

X/ProFile IDE Storage Interface for Vintage Apple Computers!
The X/ProFile is truly an exciting development in the world of vintage computers and should be of great interest to all collectors and users of the Apple Lisa, Apple II and Apple III. From the X/Profile page:

"Apple ProFile, Apple Widget, Sun20 -- these parallel port hard drives use a proprietary interface protocol to connect to historically important Apple computers, namely:

• Apple Lisa (aka Lisa 1)
• Lisa 2
• Lisa 2/10 (aka Macintosh XL)
• Apple ][
• Apple ///

As the original drives are now 20+ years old and new repair-parts are long unavailable, it is no wonder that the number of working units is dwindling. This style of hard drive is essential for most Lisa operating environments and the Apple /// SOS, so a solution was sought to maintain operability of these legacy computers.
We set out to develop a long-term solution to this problem, with emphasis on maximum compatibility, flexibility, and performance. The result is the X/ProFile."

The X/ProFile, providing an interface between the Apple parallel interface protocol and economical, readily available, and better performing IDE storage devices, is potentially a very important step toward the long-term preservation and continued useability of these historic systems.

Click here for more information on the X/Profile.

The Apple II, by Steve Wozniak
This article at oldcomputers.net originally appeared in BYTE Magazine, May 1977, Vol. 2, No. 5 and was written by none other than The Woz! It Begins:
"To me, a personal computer should be small, reliable, convenient to use and inexpensive.
The Apple-I, my first video oriented single board computer, was designed late in 1975 and sold by word of mouth through-out California and later nationwide through retail computer stores."

The Apple II, by Steve Wozniak