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

Betting on Apple
The December 1994 Byte Magazine editorial by Dennis Allen is presented here from the Byte.com archives. It was the cover story that month, and a difficult time of transition for Apple.

"Why are we focusing on Apple in this issue? It's a fair question to ask in that it's unusual for BYTE to single out one company for our cover story. However, Apple is a major player that has represented the alternative to the original IBM/Intel/Microsoft troika, and the challenges Apple faces and the technologies it is embracing will affect the rest of the computer industry."

Read more here:
Betting on Apple

Desk Ornaments
A brief history of desk accessories by Andy Hertzfeld at Folklore.org. It begins:
"One of the first architectural decisions that Bud and I made for the Macintosh system software in the spring of 1981 was that we were only going to try to run one application at a time. We barely had enough RAM or screen space to do even that, and we thought that we'd benefit from the resultant simplifications. Besides, multi-tasking was supposed to be Lisa's forte, and we didn't want to usurp all of the reasons for buying a Lisa."

Desk Ornaments

G4 Cube - Is it too early to look back?
Here is perhaps a premature look back at the Apple G4 Cube. Foreshadowing the Mac mini, it was truly stunning when it was introduced. Perhaps too stunning. We loved to look at it, touch it, imagine owning one - but for many, that was as close to actually buying one as it got. Enjoy these reviews from 2000.

BusinessWeek: The Cube: Looks Aren't Everything

GCN: Mac Cube has power, style—at a price

Macworld: Power Mac G4 Cube - Apple's Pearl of Great Price

Ars Technica: G4 Cube & Cinema Display

Macintosh Prehistory: The Apple III and Lisa Era
An article from earlier this year at Low End Mac by the talented Tom Hormby. Beginning with the "Sara" project, it traces Apple history through research at PARC, the birth of the Lisa, Apple going public in 1980 and concludes with the development and release of the Macintosh.

Macintosh Prehistory: The Apple III and Lisa Era