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Flickr Find: Transferring games from iPad to Apple II

by Steven Sande (Apr 8th, 2013)

This is a little on the old side, circa late 2011, but it's still incredibly cool. Reader Ken Fager posted a photo of an iPad being used to download games from the Apple Game Server Online onto an Apple //e. Fager explains what's happening in the photo above by saying, "The iPad is connected ...

Happy birthday, Apple Lisa and the Apple IIe

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 21st, 2013)

A happy belated birthday to the Apple Lisa and the Apple IIe! As of January 19th they both turned 30 years old. The two computers pretty much launched Apple and chances are that, without either, none of us would be using our MacBook Airs, iPads or iPhones today. As someone who is barely older ...

AppleCrate II parallel computer made from Apple IIe motherboards

by Michael Grothaus (May 4th, 2011)

In what's probably the coolest custom-built machine I've seen in ages, computer enthusiast Michael J. Mahon has built a parallel computer made out of 17 Apple IIe motherboards. As you can see the "AppleCrate II" looks like a big crate of motherboards stacked on top of each other -- and that's ...

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

by Dave Caolo (Apr 26th, 2010)

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 ...

Turn your Apple IIe into a Linux terminal

by Mike Schramm (Jul 15th, 2007)

As he even points out, this isn't the first time this has been done, but Quag7 has written up a very detailed, simple, and often hilarious (I feel the same way about Michael Bay!) guide for converting that old Apple ][e you've got sitting around into a Linux serial terminal. In this case, he runs a ...