Quick, Hide In This Closet!
Folklore.org is a wealth of Apple history - as told from the inside! A very unique resource, as you will see from this tale as told by Andy Hertzfeld, recalling the early evolution of the Apple disk drive. Through the disk divisions development of the Twiggy, and Steve Jobs initially forbidding the Macintosh team to work with Sony.

Quick, Hide In This Closet!

Top 20 Small Systems
From the September 1995 issue of Byte Magazine comes this top 20 list. Agree or disagree? Apple products take four spots, and even the NeXTstation makes the list!
The Introduction:
"From soldering irons to SparcStations, from MITS to Macintosh, personal computers have evolved from do-it-yourself kits for electronics hobbyists into machines that practically leap out of the box and set themselves up. What enabled them to get from there to here? Innovation and determination. Here are the top 20 systems that made that rapid evolution possible."

Top 20 Small Systems

Macworld's 20th Anniversary Mac Quiz
Take this quiz and test your Apple trivia knowledge. From November, 2004 at the Macworld.com site.
"A lot can happen in two decades. To celebrate the end of 2004—the 20th-anniversary year of the Mac—we tapped Owen W. Linzmayer, the author of Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World’s Most Colorful Company (No Starch Press, 2004), to stump you with 20 tricky trivia questions."

Macworld’s 20th Anniversary Mac Quiz

A History of Apple's Lisa, 1979-1986
Another great article by Tom Hormby at Low End Mac. He begins:
"The Lisa was first envisioned as a brand new business computer to succeed the very popular Apple II, and it was to be designed by Steve Wozniak. The project was quickly turned over to Ken Rothmuller, a former HP director, as Wozniak drifted away from Apple."

A History of Apple's Lisa, 1979-1986

Gallery of Apple II Clone Ads
Here is a great gallery of Apple II Clone Advertisments at the Apple2Clones.com site. Send in the Clones!

Apple II Clone Advertisments

Apple As A Metaphor
An article from 1999 by Graeme Bennett at pcbuyersguide.com. Don't we all love a good metaphor?

Apple As A Metaphor

Taking a Trip Down Memory-Chip Lane
A June 2005 article at NewScientist.com by Will Knight examining Retrocomputing. Some Apple talk, but the coverage is of the hobby in general.
The introduction:
"REMEMBER your first time, when you sat in front of a keyboard and monochrome screen and joined a brave new world? You may have been playing Pong or Manic Miner, or carefully crafting your first lines of code. But you won't have forgotten the joy of discovering personal computers."

Taking a Trip Down Memory-Chip Lane

Inside the Pippin
Another venture into the Byte.com archives, this time we go back to March 1996. It begins:
"Alexander Graham Bell set out to invent a multiplex telegraph and hearing aids for the deaf, but he found lasting fame by inventing the telephone. Apple Computer set out to design an interactive media appliance for homes and schools, but it may have created the first network computer (NC) instead."

Inside the Pippin

A2 News and Notes
The September, 2005 issue of the A2 News and Notes Newsletter for Apple II fans has been posted by Howard Katz!
This issue:
* Old Items Are New and Shipping
* Halfway There!
* Apple Ethernet
* The Sound and the Fury
* Software News
* Emulation News
* SignOff

A2 News and Notes

Dayna MacCharlie
This page at the always neat Mainly Neat Stuff website is presented here to compliment today's addition to our Advertising and Brochure Gallery of a 1985 MacCharlie ad. Includes some great pictures and links related to this cool early Mac add-on.

Dayna MacCharlie