When the Apple II computer became available in 1977 it did not ship with a display monitor. Apple could not get FCC approval for a Radio Frequency (RF) Modulator connecting the computer to a standard Television. Instead Apple partnered with another company, M&R Enterprises of Sunnyvale California, to create the standalone Sup’R’ Mod. This device, … Continue reading "A 1982 USI Pi3 Amber CRT Monitor"| Henry Lowe
In Spring 1981 I was finishing up my medical internship at a busy teaching hospital. Despite a crazy on-call schedule and chronic sleep deprivation, I had also managed to successfully complete a di…| Henry Lowe
In late 1982 I purchased my first ‘personal’ computer. Up to that point I had been using a variety of microcomputers and time sharing systems at school and work. My preferred home machi…| Henry Lowe
Apple II Pascal is an implementation of a portable Pascal language system developed at University of California San Diego (UCSD) in the late 1970s by Professor Kenneth Bowles and his students. The UCSD Pascal system contained a menu-based operating system and an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) consisting of a Filer, Editor, Compiler, Linker and Assembler. The … Continue reading "Installing Apple II UCSD Pascal"| Henry Lowe
You are thinking about acquiring a 40 year-old Apple II computer. Perhaps you are feeling nostalgic and wish to play fondly remembered games or you plan on getting back into BASIC programming. In my case I wanted to reconstruct the Apple II Pascal development environment I used in 1982. Having recently gone through the process … Continue reading "So You Want an Apple II Computer?"| Henry Lowe
The same year (1983) that Apple released the Lisa computer I discovered the Pascal programming language. In 1980 I learned to program using BASIC on an Apple II Plus computer. I had taken an introductory class in programming while working as a medical intern and became ‘hooked’. Following my internship I worked as lead designer … Continue reading "A Computing Time Machine"| Henry Lowe
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the 1983 debut of Apple’s Lisa computer, the first commercially available personal computer to use a graphical user interface (GUI). In late 1979, Steve…| Henry Lowe
