Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Retro Mac, Apple History
Vintage Apple books and software
Mad props to my parents for keeping our basement an Apple museum! Aside from a pristine Apple //c (with monochrome monitor), vintage Apple ][ ,and Mac SE/30 (with a color monitor card) they kept most if not all of our Mac and Apple programming books from my youth. A few games even survived, although my addiction to Wasteland forced my dad to ship several of the more fun games to my French cousins. So I took some quick pics and made a vintage Apple books and software gallery. Enjoy the trip down memory lane-- and if any of the authors of these books are around, let us know in the comments.Some of my favorites:
- Chipwits - one of my favorite edutainment titles ever (and the original authors are trying to bring it back)
- Jeeves - before he hit the web he was your personal assistant
- Adventure Construction Set - taught me a lot about game design
- Using HyperCard - oh how I miss HyperCard
- The Elementary Apple - notable because of the binding, which was really useful when trying to type in programs
- The Halley Project - who didn't freak out when they heard their Apple start talking?
For some reason my copy of Racter is MIA.
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Simon Arch said 1:19PM on 8-21-2007
I had (and hope I still have) Beagle Bros' The Big Tip Book which combined all their myriad tips and tricks. I hope I still have it. I've got a bunch of the charts which came with their software and a load of their catalogues, too. Ah, memories...
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Michael said 3:45AM on 8-22-2007
Funny, I just threw away 3 large boxes of old Apple ][ books and printouts from the day. All the schematics and even Disk][ ROM Dumps. And I still have more to throw away. Memories come and go.
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Apple Guy said 2:59PM on 8-22-2007
At first I thought you were talking about our basement.....We stil have an Apple II+, a IIC with two monitors, a Mac SE with a PC drive card, three Performas, including a maxed out 6500 studio version and a Powermac Silversides dual 1G. Latest is the MacBook Pro..
Oh, and we have all the documenation. All of it. And carrying cases for almost all of them.
Soneday on eBay......!
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Doug Sharp said 3:13PM on 8-24-2007
Hi,
This is Doug Sharp, one of the authors of ChipWits. We'll have a Mac version of ChipWits ready to launch by the end of September. Stay tuned.
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