Month: April 2002
About the author: Richard J. (Rick) Sutcliffe, is Professor of Mathematics and Computing Science at Trinity Western University in British Columbia. He represents Canada on international computing standards committees, and has written two textbooks and more than fifty papers, articles and reviews. He has been a columnist, software author, and active in electronic publishing. He has also been an invited speaker at numerous churches, educational and computing conferences, and technical symposia at local, national, and international levels. He presently resides…
Press Release 10 April 2002 Jef Raskin Interview in June 2002 Issue of the New Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine Seattle—Apple PugetSound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) released it’s second issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine since its return in March 2002. The latest issue of the magazine includes an exclusive interview with the father of the Macintosh, Jef Raskin. Jef speaks candidly in this interview about his days at Apple Computer, Inc. and his relationship with Steve Jobs during the years he was developing…
The First Edition of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine. (Reproduction) Apple Puget Sound Program Library Exchange C/O Val J. Golding 6708 39th Ave. S.W. Seattle, Wa. 98136 (206) 937-6588 (Home) (206) 623-7966 (Work) February 7, 1978 Dear Apple Owner: The purpose of this letter is to form an Apple computer users group, as indicated by the tentative name above, and to further the exchange of information and programs of interest to Apple Users. A preliminary meeting has been set for 7pm Thursday, February…
Over the last several months, I have entertained several requests for information about Apple to PC transfers and vice-versa. Though several packages are available to perform this task, there is only one that we think is as seamless as it gets. Apple Disk Transfer (ADT) by Paul Guertin is one of the simplest packages to use. Although many Apple II web sites still have software in Shrinkit (.SHK) format, the .DSK format is catching on. There are currently 3 packages…
The latest of the Star Wars Episode II (Attack of the Clones) trailers was recently added to the official Star Wars website at www.starwars.com. The latest trailer shows much-improved cohesiveness between the scenes and a few a different twists on the plot being shown to the public. Although the scenes are fluid and nice, the free version of Quicktime only allows a medium sized view of the clips. In order to truly experience the power of the Episode II clips,…
In 1981, I worked with a group of people who had begun a journey of amazing proportions. This particular group had managed to provide much of the information about the Apple computer available at the time. This information came in many forms. Software. Documentation. Even Hardware. It was only available through Apple PugetSound Program Library Exchange or A.P.P.L.E. for short. The brainchild of Val J. Golding, the group started in December 1977 as an idea due to the fact that…
A.P.P.L.E. Glimpses is a product introduction article. Each month, we will be introducing items which we think are noteworthy here. Although items are listed here, it does not mean an endorsement. It only means that we figured the item was interesting enough to be noted to the Apple community. This month we have a nice variety of items. We hope that you will find them as interesting as we did. If you do decide to purchase a product we mention…
Twenty-five years and counting, and yes, with a great deal more gray hair, the editor still has a few more bytes left. Many eons ago we thought we had written the last for Call –A.P.P.L.E. but one never knows. What goes around, comes around eh? Early on, we were fascinated with computers, starting in 1977 with a TI-59 programmable calculator. Writing for the 59 came closer to pure machine code programming than one might imagine, what with the need to…
