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Issue # 11
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II Something
a weekly journal devoted to the Apple II family of computers
Sunday, January 7, 1996 – issue 11 – II.Smthg.960111
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Contents
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- About…
- Editor’s Greeting
- What Happened?
- IEEE 1394-1995 — Firewire
- Next Issue
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About…
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As you know, Apple Computer, Inc. owns all of the Apple II computer copyrights and trademarks, including their names.
II Something is offered as freeware – copyright by Clark Hugh Stiles. Intact distribution of the entire file is acceptable using online services, including BBSes, or via user group DOMs provided there are no commercial sales. Individual articles may be reprinted in user group publications only, provided the following paragraph (except for the opening and closing quotes) is included at the beginning or end of the reprint:
“This article originally appeared in II Something, a weekly journal devoted to the Apple II family of computers, copyright by Clark Hugh Stiles. It has been reprinted by permission. All trademarked names and phrases mentioned belong to their respective owners. Send email to CHStiles@Delphi.Com or C.Stiles3@Genie.Com via the Internet, or newsletters, disks, products for review, gifts, or bribes to Clark Hugh Stiles, Box 46, Comstock Park, MI 49321-0046.”
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Editor’s Greeting
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Welcome to a new year of II Something. Yes, alas, a new year, 1996, and I’m still using an Apple IIgs. Normally, as I mentioned in a previous issue, it would be out with the old and in with the new. But not in this case!
Funny how time has made this venerable old machine still very much a useful machine. That being said, even that machine is not without failure or loss of data. And that leaves us at the question of What Happened?
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What Happened??
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Well, something happened on the way to Issue # 11 of II Something. That’s right, it’s gone. Disappeared. Not in the archives. What Happened?
I suppose that is why this issue’s guest editor is Bill Martens of A.P.P.L.E.. It is Bill’s words which grace the pages of what is supposed to be the 11th issue of II Something.
We would not have even needed to put Bill’s writing skills to the test had we just followed the old adage of insuring that our backups are actual backups and not digital noise. But he is here and I am not.
Of all the lousy deals to have happen, the original Issue # 11 is gone. Just plain old gone! While I like to believe that my hard drives could house anything reliably, it does not explain how even the archivists magically lost this issue and there is absolutely nothing left of the original.
Many online locations and even Delphi themselves also purport to have a copy of the 11th issue yet none of the archived copies has turned out to be anything much more than a bunch of garbled characters, making little to no sense, and bearing absolutely no real resemblance to the original version.
Thus sadly, after checks of all archives, hard drives and other resources, we must come to the conclusion that Issue No 11 of II Something will be nothing more than this re-constituted snipped offering a glimpse into what the biggest fear of most archivists and writers is: Loss of Data!
I guess it is just our lot that we will just have to wait for the next issue to provide deliverance from the void!
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IEEE 1394-1995 — Firewire
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One of the more significant news items of the last month besides Christmas and New Years, was the fact that the IEEE Standards Board accepted Apple Computer’s FireWire design.
The new design was accepted by the IEEE Board on 12 December and is now officially classified as “IEEE 1394-1995 Standard for a High Performance Serial Bus””, or also as “IEEE 1394.”
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Next Issue —
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Next week, we will take a look at a host of items including the fact that the tenth anniversary of the IIgs is less than eight months away. As I mentioned earlier in this issue, I’m still using an Apple IIgs.
Tenth anniversary? That’s something to celebrate. We could just gather at my house, order some pizza, crack open some beverages, eat and drink with one hand, stick the other down the fronts of our pants, and watch a Show Me slide show (no GIFs please, unless the machine is accelerated)…or, we could order about fifty pizzas from different vendors for delivery at Apple headquarters…one pizza for every model of Mac ever introduced…a touching tribute…I’m sure they can cover the expense of this prank out of petty cash…
The issue also covers the Super Bowl (what, again?!?), wait until I’m finished, the Super Bowl website. Oh, and just in case you were wondering, I will be back as the editor of record.
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II Infinitum
