Month: August 2002
About this ListThe A.P.P.L.E. Links list is one of the most complete Apple and Macintosh lists available on the internet today. As the Internet is one of the most fluid entities in existence, this list is also always in transition. The Apple II list is a compilation of many lists of URL’s and has addition information and comments added by the staff of A.P.P.L.E. You will find almost any link that you will need for any Apple related project contained within this…
“An (abstract) metalibrary is the entire collection of a society’s data, information, and techniques, together with the means by which it is stored, accessed, and communicated. The Metalibrary of the fourth civilization is the complete, electronically linked and accessed version of its abstract metalibrary.”—from “The Fourth Civilization–Technology Society and Ethics” by Rick Sutcliffe “What kind of title is that?” Nellie Hacker demanded, looking over my shoulder at the beginnings of my latest Northern Spy column. “Everybody knows you can’t…
Over the previous month, we here at A.P.P.L.E. have been remodeling our online store and adding new items to the catalog trying to enhance our content and making unique products available to our members. You will find our new product catalog online at www.callapple.org. All of the products in the catalog which have a Add To Cart button are available now and may be purchased. We have also included some hardware items which are not available anywhere else. This included…
The Houston Area Apple Users Group (HAAUG) will be holding a swap meet on Saturday 28 July 2002 from 9am to 4pm. This swap meet is for Apple enthusiasts and is open to the general public. This is the place to take your chance to pick up relatively inexpensive Apple equipment. HAAUG members can get a table for free while non-members can rent the table for $50 per table. If you need electricity for your display table, there is an…
Over the years, there have been many programming languages, which have come and gone, sometimes in the blink of an eye. However, one programming language which has has a nice long legacy and continues to be used on some platforms today is the simple language Pilot. The language itself has come in several flavors over the years, both in full-blown compiler size and the mini size. N. Dealy programmed one of the first versions of Mini-Pilot in 1978. Scott Knaster…
Our editorial staff from the large number of product announcements and news releases sent to us daily selected the following items. They are presented solely to keep you informed about the current market for Apple related hardware and software. As we have not tested many of these products, appearance here does not necessarily represent endorsement or recommendation by A.P.P.L.E.. Further information about items appearing in The Marketplace can be obtained through the A.P.P.L.E. Web Site. If you contact any manufacturer…
The following letter appeared in the Michigan Apple-Gram as well as the International Apple Core produced Apple Orchard volume 1 number 1. While the idea behind it was unbelievable at the time, history had a way of making it work. We hope that you enjoy this little bit of history as much as we did. The Apple Rumor Mill Courtesy of Paul KnevelsFrom The Michigan Apple-Gram It has been rumored that Apple Computer, Inc. is working on an Apple III…
On the 20th of June 2002, Vintage Micros.com of South Carolina listed one of the rarest computers available today. The Lisa 1 was only produced for a few months and then replaced with the Lisa 2, which was eventually renamed to the Macintosh XL due to the problems with the Lisa 1. The Lisa 1 listed by Vintage micros came directly from the Texas manufacturing plant via a third party who won the auction which Apple held originally. All of these…
About Bill Fernandez Bill Fernandez is known in the Apple world as Apple Employee number 1 and a big part of what Apple has become today. As one of the people who has been instrumental in their growth and development, his insights into what Apple is provides a good basis for those of us who were on the outside looking in. Today Bill is both an amateur photographer as well as a 2nd degree black belt in Aikido. He has spent…
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For many years since that fateful pilot release of the Star Trek, many millions of fans around the globe have been glued to their screens waiting for each new release of the continuing sagas created by Gene Rodenbery. Once again, Paramount Pictures has listened to those fans and released another Star trek movie named Nemesis. This movie based on Star Trek: The Next Generation and starring the cast and the crew of the same is dues to be released on…
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…
There have been many flavors of Unix type systems for many platforms over the years, but there have been few for the Apple II. However in this world of bleak shortsightedness, there has been one project that gained the recognition of many in the Apple world. GNO/ME What is GNO/ME? It is a nice Unix style system for the Apple II GS which ran on top of the Apple II GS OS allowing multitasking of text based windows and was…
A.P.P.L.E. Glimpses Apple Computer releases QuickTime 6 Preview Apple Computer Inc. released the latest beta version of its popular video playing software, Quicktime 6 to the public this month. While the software is expected to build upon the changes that were in the last release, it still has some distance to cover before catching up with the other players in the market. The latest version includes support for MPEG-4 file format as well as AAC Audio from which is an…
While this month’s web site is not specifically an Apple site, it is an important web resource for users of many platforms. Snackey Pete’s is a nice web site for those interested in the Inform format of Interactive Fiction games. The site, which is produced by Helikon Technologies, is a nice simple web site and has man compilers, interpreters, games, and even documentation for the Inform format. As many of the older users may know, Inform is the format in…
Ebay has purchased the online payment services company PayPal for a reported $1.5 billion USD. The purchase was made using stock swaps based on the July 5, 2002 value of PayPal’s stock and is still subject to the stockholder approval and the regulators. While the acquisition appears to solidify Ebay’s online services, it also presents a problem with respect to the amount charged for transaction fees as well as the quality of service. Until now, Ebay was forced to advertise…
This month, I am writing “The Editor Bytes Back” while Val Golding takes a short hiatus. In trying to figure out what to write, it occurred to me that no one ever talks about the early software companies that rose up out of the Apple II world. With this revelation, I figured I’d attempt it, having been one of those teenage programmers that the Apple II world so readily reflected in the 1980s. The day the music died Like all…
