Comments on: Introducing Apple II

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:36:27 +0000

jayessell » Why on earth would that be against the rules? The only things that aren’t allowed are hate speech and blatant spam.
And on the spam front, if you’re a regular commenter to the site (and you’re among our most prolific) I really don’t have any problem with you posting whatever you want. If you have a new site, or book, movie, or whatever that you want to plug, go right ahead. That goes for everyone. I’d like this to be a community and not everything has to revolve around the stuff I post.

Also, I’m thinking of adding forums to the site, what do you think?

By: jayessell

jayessell — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:17:38 +0000

Remember the Apple ][ ad from June 14, 2007?
Comment #3?
My primitive computer animation?
I’ve reposted the SciFi film I did primitive computer graphics for at

http://video.google.com/videop.....3610248626

See if you can spot the CG!
That’s me “Live from Earth”!

(Charlie, if I’ve violated the rules by posting this, just delete.)

By: Leigh

Leigh — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:21:27 +0000

In my copy, I remember the guy had a huge multicolored ink splotch across his face.

By: bertfw

bertfw — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:36:39 +0000

I always loved the ominous black monolith overlooking the scene in this ad.

By: 1977 - Introducing the Apple II (Vintage Ad) « Apple News

1977 - Introducing the Apple II (Vintage Ad) « Apple News — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:51:36 +0000

[...] http://blog.modernmechanix.com.....-apple-ii/ TFeuer: Nice picture of an Apple on the wall. Good touch. Jaakob: 1977 called, they want their ad back. nklepper: Dugg Down for OLD NEWS….. inoverthe: It’s like looking into the future. fastang: I see things haven’t changed much for MAC in the past 30 years. justmy15cents: damn its annoying that the “monitor” (TV?) is not aligned better with the keyboard… bad ergonomics there Billions: “As soon as she leaves I’m loading up ‘Lemonade Stand’ again and beating Tony’s score…” aduzik: Christ, even in 1977 Apple didn’t believe in articles: “Introducing *THE* Apple II”. Modify your nouns, dammit! ffemt300: Ha! Apple on the wall in the kitchen…. Semprini: So, that’s what happened to Sandy Duncan.. Meursault: “Oh, shit. Honey, I think I just crashed the NY Stock Exchange” MrPotato: Back in the day I typed with me left hand and drank and wrote with my right. Everything was working out well until one day, out of the blue, my wife says “honey, don’t you want to upgrade to the new model?” Since I bought my compy they went and added a freakin’ number pad to the keyboard forcing me to type with my right hand. Bastards! [...]

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By: Boing Boing

Boing Boing — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:13:15 +0000

Amazing Apple II stop-motion animation…

Charlie says: James Leatham, one of the a regular commenter on my blog just posted links to this amazing movie he made on his Apple IIe in 1985. The graphics are way beyond the capability of the computer to render in real time, so he used stop-motion. …

By: jayessell

jayessell — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:54:39 +0000

Thanks for your kind comments.
I’ll post the Super-8 epic eventually.
I have a bit part in it!

I checked my closet.
The rig is still there.
The //e long gone.

By the way, I found conductive strips and photo sensors for advancing the film and positioning the color filters unreliable.

The last version used low RPM, high torque AC gearmotors and lever-action microswitches.
I may post one more picture.

I know at least one of you is wondering…
The 45: Don Rickels “Hello Dummy!”
The 33: Liz Damon’s “Orient Express”.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:22:28 +0000

Actually, I think she’s cutting apples. Also, note the contents of their art.

By: 1985 computer animation on an Apple IIe » Developages - Development and Technology Blog

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:16:58 +0000

[...] writes – Phil, you should check out this cool Apple II stop motion rig one of my commenters made in the 80’s, I think it’s right up your alley. He had the computer control the camera [...]

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:09:56 +0000

I had been an OS programmer on mainframes from 1973 thru 1978.

I bought s/n 0183 back in 1977, then a floppy drive in 1978. One thing led to another, and I began working at Apple at the top of 1979…

By: Caya

Caya — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:59:08 +0000

I remember when those computers came out. I remember when Pong came out, too. In our school we got new Apple IIe’s, and we thought it was SO much fun to play the original version of “Oregon Trail” in school. Actually I think it’s still fun. Now instead of playing Oregon Trail to waste time in school, my girl gets to go on the Internet and play educational games- which I still think is a waste of time. I don’t call catching letters to form a word very educational, at any level.

By: Caya

Caya — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:54:56 +0000

“If you buy an APPLE II, you will be the manly stud of the home, your wife will adore you, and after you balance her checkbook for her with your APPLE II she will give you Nookie.”

By: Caya

Caya — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:51:54 +0000

“Oh Honey, you’re so manly and clever with the Computer. Can you balance my checkbook for me with that? I’m afraid it’s all messed up again, I just don’t know where the money went. My poor little brain can’t figure all that complicated stuff out, let alone figure out all those buttons. Here, Hon; let me make you dinner.”

By: Stannous

Stannous — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:10:57 +0000

JSL-
Very impressive!
I’m guessing that it is more because you don’t have the free hours to dedicate to a few minutes of animation as much as anything else that you ‘haven’t done squat!’

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:18:29 +0000

You guys should check out that video jayessel did on the apple II it’s pretty amazing.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:10:29 +0000

Charlie posted this article as a favor to me, so I’m getting a kick out of these comments.

I worked at a small computer store in ine 1980s & 1990s.
Every once in a while we would sell an Apple //e board alone to some company, proportedly for CNC use.

I purchased one of the first (sn 000105) ][ in El Paso in 1970-something or other. Can it have been 76? (That’s the spirit!) I got the floppy drive several months later.

Up until now, never heard of the ‘board-only’ option.
That part of the ad may have been retroactively negated.

My pimped-out //e doing computer animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbxJajIGBWo
A magazine article showing how I did it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8740359@N04/
(Set to largest photo size possible.)
A more technical but less accurate description:
http://www.atariarchives.org/c.....p?page=129
http://www.atariarchives.org/c.....p?page=130
http://www.atariarchives.org/c.....p?page=132
http://www.atariarchives.org/c.....p?page=133
http://www.atariarchives.org/c.....p?page=134

And since 1985, I haven’t done squat!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:29:48 +0000

When I said kit, I meant you could buy just the motherboard and build your own case, power supply etc. It says it on the lower right corner of the ad. Are you saying this option was never actually available?

By: swaters

swaters — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:11:27 +0000

Ouch! The Apple ][ was NEVER available as a kit, the product was always intended to be a plug & play computer in a plastic case. The Apple 1 was available as a circuit board for which the user had to supply many of the parts, including the case.

Better fix that before someone Diggs this and you have your server flooded by other Apple geeks pointing out the error.