Hate him or love him, but this man led some of the most talented bands of engineers in the history of the planet to create gadgets that have changed the way we understand technoloy. Here’s his greatest works. More »
Even back when 4kB of RAM would set you back $US1298, the trademark turtleneck was still a staple in the land of Jobs. Timeless turtleneck fashion, from 1977 to today. [Obsolete]
Often it’s an artist’s second book or album that draws the public’s attention—so too with Apple’s number 2, whose story is excerpted here from Core Memory, photographed by Mark Richards and written by John Alderman. More »
While some people mod PC parts into devices that look like Apple products, Ben Heck has chosen to throw Apple IIgs parts into a laptop mod that looks more like a PC. The Apple IIgs laptop has a 15-inch screen, RAM expansion, compact flash reader for storage, stereo speakers. He also included ports for a floppy disk drive, mouse and joystick.
After paying almost twice as much as the Apple IIc’s original price for a unopened one in mint condition on eBay—$2553—Dan Budiac couldn’t just let his freshly purchased piece of vintage computing gather dust (and $$$) on a shelf as a trophy box. Nope, he had to subject it to that most time-honoured of rituals: the strip and manhandle photoset. Here’s a few shots, but check out the whole set if virginal 24-year-olds are your thing.
[Flickr via Coding Horror via BBG]
The Apple ] [ was the first MacApple [Update: Thx for the Fact Check, Fanboys]I’d ever used. I spent Summers in Hong Kong with the grandparents, and one years, I got computer “lessons” on it. When I say lessons, I mean playing Ghostbusters. That game came out in 1984, which is seven years after the Apple ] [ launched, and actually even a few years after the Apple III (1980, turd). Pretty amazing little machine, with its 1MHz Processor and 4K or RAM. (Although I think mine was a more powerful Apple ] [e.)
[Wiki, RetroThing and TUAW. Image of the Apple I adopted for use from The Joy of Tech] More »
