Category: The Editor Bytes Back
The Editor Still Bytes Back KansasFest 2023: A Celebration of Apple III’s Legacy KansasFest 2023 has concluded, once again leaving the retro Apple hobby faithful with a treasure trove of exciting developments. This year’s event with its focus on the Apple III computer, was graced by Apple luminaries Wendell Sander and Dave Ottalini as keynote speakers, and as usual, was nothing short of spectacular. Come along with us now as we delve headlong into the highlights of this gathering of…
The introduction of Passbook in iOS 6 this month was interesting in that it brought Apple up to the level that many companies have already been at with their offerings. While this introduction was good in one respect, it also left me once again pondering what this means for the world of personal information security. It has a number of us actually pondering what Apple is thinking about other than ease of use. Passbook gives the user a really easy…
This month, I finally joined the rest of the world in the mad dash for the iPhone which everyone else partook in last year. This lateness to the party was no fault of my own other than the fact that I was stuck in a phone contract that was two years long. My contract began three weeks before the iPhone came out and actually ran through June of this year. While this type of contract is not unusual, it has…
Another year is here, Apple has once again shocked the world, Mac World Expo is under threat of no big company participation and we here at A.P.P.L.E. are working on more projects than we know what to do with. What that means for our members is that there will be new hardware available once again after a 19 year hiatus from the hardware realm. Our engineers have been involved in the A2GS-L01 laptop project for the past two months, and…
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…
WERE off to greet spring-time and the West Coast Computer Faire with a special 128 page issue, our largest to date. Lest we forget, the dates for the big show of the year IS March 18-20 at Brooks Hall, In San Francisco’s civic center. Hope to see you there, and at the Anaheim Applefest In April. From time to time in Call-A.P.P.L.E, we often feature assembly language programs which use Applesoft’s powerful ampersand (&) command, which has the capability of…
HERE It IS, what you have all been waiting for … the Apple II ReVISion e. Our lead story Reving Up the Rev e by Call-A.P.P.L.E. staff writers Clif Howard and Art Schumer IS a giant cooperative effort between the authors, Apple Computer, Inc. and ourselves. You can read the full-featured review of a full-featured machine starting on Page 9. And don’t be concerned about any in- compatibilities With existing software; they will be few and far between. The Identification…
A new year is upon us, another 12 issues of Call-A.P.P.L.E. We would like to request again our readers Input. What are your preferences and dislikes. Take time, if the thought appeals to you, to photocopy the contents page and rate the stories. We’re interested also in how you use your Apple, whether or not you write your own programs or plan to. Comments should be addressed to the Editorial Office at the address shown on page 2, and should…
