The State of Computing: U.S.A.
It's back to the future, with this article by Gregg Keizer from the Atarimagazines.com archives. This one was originally published in Compute!, Issue 134 / October 1991 / Page 18. From the article:
"Walk through the door and shout, "I'm home!" and you may get an answer from the kids, a spouse, and half a dozen, computers. Computers hide all around your house. Touch the membrane panel of your microwave, and you call on a microchip-based controller. Your telephone-answering machine may record calls not on tape, but in silicon memory. That late-model car out in the garage is smarter than some of the kids you went to school with. And your videogame machine does graphics better than most business computers."

The State of Computing: U.S.A.

A2 News and Notes
The July, 2005 issue of the A2 News and Notes Newsletter for Apple II fans has been posted by Howard Katz!
This issue:
* Summer Camp for Geeks
* Hearing an Apple II
* The Return of GS+
* Apple II Ideas
* Hardware News
* Software News
* SignOff

A2 News and Notes

IBM, Apple, RISC, and the Roots of the Power Mac
To coincide with our latest gallery addition, a 1994 "Introducing Power Macintosh" Ad, we recommend this interesting new article at Low End Mac by the talented Tom Hormby.
It begins:
"The story of the PowerPC began in the early seventies when John Cocke and his team at IBM began designing one of the earliest RISC processors, the 801. By the mid-seventies, it was believed that microprocessors had become as complex and feature rich as they ever would, so further advances would have to come in the form of miniaturization or fundamental shifts in thinking about processor design."

IBM, Apple, RISC, and the Roots of the Power Mac

PowerBook 100 Technical Articles
A set of useful articles the The Apple PowerBook 100 FAQ site. Topics included:

• Opening Your PowerBook 100
• PowerBook 100 Battery Insights
• Rejeuvenating Dead Batteries
•¿Refurbishing Dead Batteries
• Broken Power Cable Socket on Motherboard

PowerBook 100 Technical Articles

Birth of the Lisa
Another great article by Thomas Hormby at the Braeburn website. This time, an in depth look at the beloved Lisa. It begins:
"The Lisa project was initiated in 1978 to provide Apple's next generation business computer. According to the original marketing specifications, created in 1979, the computer bore little resemblance to the computer that was actually released several years later. It's major claim to fame was its inclusion of a bit sliced processor, but it became clear that such a processor would price Lisa well above the $2,000 goal that the marketers had set."

Birth of the Lisa

Five Different Macintoshes
Today we go back to the well at the always interesting Folklore.org, as Andy Hertzfeld reveals this tale of early Macintosh development.
It begins:
"The awesomely creative design of the Macintosh digital board was always the seed crystal of brilliance at the core of the project, but there wasn't just one design; Burrell redesigned the digital board four different times as development proceeded, finally arriving at the shipping design in the fall of 1982. "

Five Different Macintoshes

NeXT History
Thomas Hormby at the Braeburn website presents this comprehensive history of Steve Jobs' NeXT Incorporated. Well written and quite inclusive, this is an absolute must read!

NeXT History

NeXTstation Color
To accompany today's gallery addition of a 1992 NeXTstation Color brochure is this page at obsoletecomputermuseum.org detailing this machine, including close-up photos.

NeXTstation Color

Apple eMate 300 (Blast From The Past)
A 2002 retro review at The Gadgeteer of the Apple eMate by Mike Riegel. 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)

NeXT Evolution
Here is another little gem from the MacTech.com article archives. This time it's a flashback to 1989 with Paul Snively, Contributing Editor, as he discusses his NeXTcube from a developers point of view. He begins: "Those of you who are waiting for the next (NeXT?) revolution in microcomputing are likely to be disappointed lately, and are probably going to remain that way for some time to come. That’s the news that I have to offer now that I have access to a NeXT computer. Before you go jumping out of your office windows or selling off your worldly goods and waiting for the end of the world to arrive, let me quickly add that this doesn’t mean that the picture is bleak. Far from it. Let me explain..."

NeXT Evolution