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This article provides a detailed technical history of the Apple Disk II controller card, explaining its innovative software-driven design by Steve Wozniak and its impact on the Apple II's success.
A deep dive into the Videx VideoTerm, the 80-column card that transformed the Apple II into a serious business machine, and its modern FPGA emulation via the A2FPGA project, focusing on hardware architecture and the MC6845 CRT controller.
A developer created SwiftII, a Swift-flavored mini development environment for the Apple II, including a REPL, file browser, and text editor, bringing a taste of modern programming to vintage hardware.
The article debunks Steve Jobs' claim that the Apple II's switching power supply was revolutionary, tracing the real innovation to transistor advances in the late 1960s and 1970s.
The article recounts the divergent paths of Apple co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs after the success of the Apple II in 1980, highlighting Wozniak's retreat from the company and Jobs' ambitious but flawed attempt to create the Apple III.