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Found Footage: Twitter on an Apple IIe (kind of)



Here's a great video from technabob that shows an Apple IIe displaying archived Tweets from a 5.25-inch floppy disk, complete with lo-res graphics.

Here's how it works. Modder Yergacheffe uses a PC for interacting with Twitter. He hacked together a PC-to-Apple IIe interface for moving data to the Apple from the PC's USB port. Next, he wrote some custom 6502-assembler code that displays Tweets on the Apple IIe and also converts users' Twitter avatars into those gorgeous, chunky lo-res graphics.

Finally, tweets are saved to the floppy for later playback. Too busy to attend to Twitter? Capture the action and play it back later, retro-style. We love it.

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Here's a great video from technabob that shows an Apple IIe displaying archived Tweets from a 5.25-inch floppy disk, complete with...
 

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N900

5" floppies. That takes me back.

April 26 2010 at 3:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Woody

I have a //e and a IIgs in storage. Guess I gotta bust 'em out!

April 26 2010 at 3:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Robert

Great, but I would be even MORE impressed if someone was able to play YouTube videos on a vintage computer line the //e. Or maybe the ][GS.

April 26 2010 at 1:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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