Revolution in The Valley - The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
Were back on the mainland, but still on vacation - and all nursing a bit of tropical sunburn! Regular updates will resume on Monday, but in the meantime here is an link to Andy Hertzfeld's new book tracing the development of the Macintosh computer from its inception as an underground skunkworks project in 1979 to its triumphant introduction in 1984 and beyond.

Revolution in The Valley

Fantastic Apple Historical DVD's
We were stunned to see the amount of rare video content on these five compilation DVD's featuring early footage, most never seen by the general public. They are available for purchase at the link below, and every Apple fan interested in Apple History (and you wouldn't be reading this if you weren't) absolutely MUST check them out! Really an amazing collection that you will never again find available in one place. Thank you to Andrew for giving us this link to his eBay store!

Apple-History-Store

The Mothership Crew Winter Vacation
Next week the entire Mothership crew will be taking our annual holiday break. There will be no updates next week unless we go temporarily insane and find an online computer in a quite spot in the Bahamas and can put down the umbrella drinks long enough. See you when we return, and remember - play nice!

Little Rubber Feet
An article at Folklore.org. "When industrial design and the reality of purchasing meet, and we find that no detail was too small to cause problems..."

Little Rubber Feet

Apple IIGS emulator KEGS Updated
Version 0.91 of the Apple IIgs emulator KEGS is now available for download.
Changes in KEGS v0.91 since v0.90 (12/06/04):
- Fixed serious bug in engine_c.c that could cause Finder file copies to silently corrupt data.
- Virtual Modem support--modem appears on serial port, allows outgoing and incoming connections.
- Sockets (and Virtual Modem) supported on Windows.
- Fixed various reset bugs (where pressing Ctrl-Reset would cause infinite beeps, etc).
- Allow user to select ROM file from config panel if not found.
- Improved Mac OS X interface: Full Screen support and error dialogs.
- Better floppy support by always having 5.25" read nearest track regardless of head position (supports Last Gladiator game bad crack by emulating other emulators).

KEGS

This Week in Apple History, December 1-11
The latest entry in the continuing series at The Mac Observer by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin!

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

Old Ads From Apple
Ok, Ok - sheesh! Everyone seems to be searching for these. Here is another link to Apple video ads & promos. LOTS of vintage products are represented!

Old Apple Ads

Make your Old PowerBook Scream (In Agony)
A cool little article by Chris Seibold from 2001 at MacWrite.com.

As Chris says, "I'm talking failed PowerBook surgery. If you want to play along, get yourself a nice used PowerBook 5300cs."

Make your Old PowerBook Scream

A2 News and Notes
The November, 2004 issue of the A2 News and Notes Newsletter has been posted by Howard Katz!
This issue:
* KansasFest Venue Change
* CFFA Availability
* Software News
* Networking Apple II's
* Emulation News
* SignOff

A2 News and Notes

Apple Commercials and Videos
We get lots and lots and...lots of requests for Apple television commercials. We don't do that. Stick with what you're good at - that's what mom always said! Anyway, here is a link to dozens of Apple commercials and promo videos from days gone by. Get 'em while the lawyers still don't know about 'em.

Apple Commercials and Videos