Month: February 2011

Mike Maginnis posted a note today on CSA2 about the COmputist Project being dead.  In reality, the project has been combined with a number of other projects run by Mike Maginnis to create a new website.  Mike’s note is contained below: First, the Computist Project is dead…  It’s been static since 2006 and the website had been slowly falling into disrepair, so to speak. So now it’s been re-christened the Computist Archive, and has a new home at: http://apple2scans.net/computistarchive Second,…

If you have a spare Apple ][ sitting around and always wanted the Apple-1, now you can have your cake and eat it too.  Mike Willegal has developed a new “Brain Board” which is essentially an Apple-1 computer on an Apple ][.  The card itself slides into an Apple ][ slot and performs just like an Apple-1 when the Apple ][ is turned on.  The Brain Board uses the Apple ][ cassette interface for all program loading and saving. In…

Ken Gagne posted a note today on CSA2 about a new podcast being hosted by Mike Maginnis and Ken Gagne.  The announcement was as follows: Mike Maginnis and Ken Gagne, two long-time Apple  II users, are proud to announce the Apple II community’s first co-hosted podcast. “Open Apple”, a monthly show dedicated to Steve Wozniak’s most famous personal computer, begins broadcasting today at http://www.open-apple.net/ with a new episode to come every month. “When we got home from KansasFest 2010, we…