Mastodawn

Roughly 40years later - thanks to @gruber and @siracusa - I got to understand why I wanted the Mac and not the IIgs 🎉 square rules! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_GS/OS #retrocomputing #retromac #squarerules #marchintosh #appleii

🅼🅰🆁🅺 11h ago

For anyone who is an old school #Apple fanatic, check out these interviews of my good friend and colleague, Jimmy Mensch, who retired from Apple in 2023 (about 6 months before I retired).

He talks about working as an Apple Computer service technician and then starting a long and successful career at Apple working on the #AppleII #AppleIIgs #MacLC #MacOS #MacOSX Rosetta #AppleTV #iCloud, and more.

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Bits&Terminal Jeff 1d ago

Speaking of a cat (Boxcat rival) thinks it's a comfortable warm box.

Beagle Bros. logo for those who understand/remember.

#cats #catsOfMastodon #retroComputing #appleII #BeagleBros

Bits&Terminal Jeff 1d ago

Some double-hires goodness on a VGA monitor (a2Vidga card), CGA monitor (Taxan 410-64 RGB card) and monochrome security monitor (composite output) all from the same Apple IIe.

All I need now is a cat on top of one of these monitors.

#retroComputing #apple2forever #appleII #AprilApples

internetarchive 2d ago

On Apple’s 50th anniversary, the Future Knowledge #podcast presents THE APPLE II AGE 🍎

A computer that didn’t just launch Apple but shaped how a generation discovered technology. Historians Laine Nooney & Finn Brunton explore how games, classrooms, and creative tools made the Apple II a cultural phenomenon.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/the-apple-ii-age

@LaineNooney #Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #PersonalComputing

Retrópolis 2d ago

Mais um leilão!

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/02/leilao-itens-retro/

#MundoRetro #ajuda #Amiga #AppleII #campanha #disquete #EduardoDias #Leilo #MasterSystem #MSX #Nashua #nec #PCEngine #sega #sinclair #TI994A #ZXSpectrum

Mais um leilão! - Retrópolis

Como vocês sabem, nosso amigo Eduardo Dias faleceu em agosto de 2025. Um primeiro leilão foi feito com os itens dele, o que foi um sucesso (falamos mais a respeito no Repórter Retro 123). Agora teremos um segundo leilão, com fechamento para dias 6 e 7 de abril, a partir das 20 horas. Você pode

Retrópolis - A cidade dos clássicos

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Colin McMillen 2d ago

Second, the electronics stores are much less greedy than eBay sellers, and were selling their 20-years-old stock at a normal price for a stupid connector instead of 10-20€, so I can now drop 10€ of the price of the #BurgerDisk and #DominoDisk !

(The shop is there and it's live! https://www.colino.net/wordpress/shop/ )
#RetroComputing #AppleII

TheBadPlace 2d ago

Times of India | 50 years of Apple: From Apple II to iPhone, these 10 shaped Apple’s half-century-long run

Fifty years since a hand-soldered circuit board sold for $666.66, Apple has gone from a Los Altos garage to the most valuable company on earth. Its story isn't one of products built—it's of how every single product redrew the boundaries of what technology could be. The Apple II, Macintosh, iPhone, and eight others didn't just open new markets. They made the old ones obsolete.

#apple #appleii #iphone #losaltos #macintosh

50 years of Apple: From Apple II to iPhone, the 10 products that made Apple and remade everything else - The Times of India

Tech News News: Apple turned 50 this year. Half a century since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak sold a Volkswagen bus and a programmable calculator to fund a company in .

The Times of India