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Episode 11: Fort Stanford, b/w Phase III: Dr. Melvin Astrahan
Drop III Inches
English - June 27, 2015 22:17 - 1 hour - 85.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We’re back for Episode 11. This time, we talk about really very small advances in booting a /// from a flash drive, the Cursor /// joystick and the history of The Keyboard Company, and a visit to the Stanford archives of Apple materials to get the real scoop on EMI/RFI emissions and the timeline of … Continue reading Episode 11: Fort Stanford, b/w Phase III: Dr. Melvin Astrahan →
We’re back for Episode 11. This time, we talk about really very small advances in booting a /// from a flash drive, the Cursor /// joystick and the history of The Keyboard Company, and a visit to the Stanford archives of Apple materials to get the real scoop on EMI/RFI emissions and the timeline of the /// plus. After that, another talk from the 1987 Phase III conference, this one by Dr. Melvin Astrahan, author of Draw On /// and the Mr. Sandman game, talking about the graphical abilities of the Apple ///.
The trip to the Stanford archives yielded two interesting Apple ///-related documents. More about these on apple2scans.net (link will be retroactively inserted here when it’s ready over there), but here are the documents themselves:
Apple /// plus beta testing (Nov 15, 1982)
Preliminary RFI testing on Apple III computer (Jun 24, 1980)
Links of Interest:
Michael Muller’s History of The Keyboard Company, on Wendell Sander’s apple1notes site
Mike Willegal’s page on early Apple keyboards
SDFloppy II
RetroConnector cable for connecting /// and SDFloppy II
RetroConnector keyboard interface for Apple //e
Archive guide to the Stanford Apple collection
Draw On ///