Apple II FAQs
Tons and tons of questions answered for those Apple II fans. A great place to get started.

Apple II FAQs

Apple IIc Revealed
This is an article from the Atarimagazines.com archives, which originally appeared in Creative Computing, Vol. 10, No. 10 / October, 1984 / Page 30. Written by Owen Linzmeyer, author of Apple Confidential, it begins:
"The Apple IIc is like no other Apple computer ever introduced, and yet it is virtually an Apple IIe work-alike. The design of the IIc represents a change of philosphy for Apple. Gone are the expansion slots that hardware hackers loved. In fact, you can't even open the IIc easily. Apple has built a computer that is to be used as an applicance--like a telephone or a tape recorder."

Apple IIc Revealed

PowerBook 5300 FAQ
The poor PowerBook 5300. No friends. Well, here at The Mothership, we don't think it's all that bad - no, really! So here is a 5300 FAQ, all hyperlinked and full of handy information.

PowerBook 5300 FAQ

What You Can Learn from Steve Jobs
An article from Inc. Magazine, Oct 1999 by Steven Berglas recommending that Apple's board throw him out! (We're glad Mr. Berglas wasn't running Apple)
From the article:
"All I know about Steve Jobs--the good and the bad--is what I read in the business press. But based on that, my recommendation to Apple's board of directors would be to show Mr. Jobs the door."

What You Can Learn from Steve Jobs

Black Wednesday
Andy Hertzfeld at Folklore.org recounts a dreary day on the Apple II Engineering team that freed him up to work on the Macintosh project.
He begins:
"I could tell there was something wrong from the moment I stepped into the building, on the morning of Wednesday, February 25th, 1981. Instead of the normal office buzz, there was a muted sadness hanging in the air. People were standing around, huddled in small groups. I ran into Donn Denman, who had a cubicle near mine, and asked him what was going on."

Black Wednesday

Apple Acquires Next, Jobs
As a companion to today's gallery addition, a 1992 NeXTstation brochure, we present this CNET News story from not all that long ago, announcing the stunning news that Apple Computer had acquired Next Software, and along with it, Steve Jobs - ushering in the new era of Apple success we enjoy today.

Apple Acquires Next, Jobs

The Failure Interview: Steve Wozniak
The 2000 Jason Zasky interview with the Woz for the online Failure Magazine. It begins:
"With the media spotlight focused on the revival of Apple and especially its histrionic CEO Steve Jobs, Failure set out to investigate the whereabouts of Apple’s other co-founder Steve Wozniak. For those of you wondering what Steve Wozniak is up to these days, the answer is nothing—at least when it comes to engineering. Aside from doing the odd speaking engagement or philanthropic event, the man who basically invented the personal computer seems rather content to putter around the house and do the occasional fix-it project, spending as much time with his family as possible."

The Failure Interview: Steve Wozniak

The Revolutionaries: Steve Wozniak
An interview with the Woz at TheTech.org. From the interview:
"Steve Wozniak, the son of a Lockheed engineer, grew up in Sunnyvale, where he dreamed of having his own computer. The rest is Silicon Valley legend.
At the Homebrew Computer Club, he passed out copies of his original designs. With Steve Jobs, he began working on a commerical model and in 1977, the Apple II made its debut. Three years later, Apple went public. The 30-year-old ''Woz'' was suddenly worth millions and became a symbol of free-wheeling nerd enterprise and ingenuity."

The Revolutionaries: Steve Wozniak

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