Read Only Memories Unearthed

While OpenEmulator and Virtual ][ make a pretty solid one-two duo of Apple II emulators for the modern Macintosh (and just may have done more than anything else to turn my attention towards that particular old computer), I did start experimenting (with much help from someone compiling Homebrew installation formulae) with an emulator called Epple-II. It’s promised to offer considerable hardware fidelity even if it’s also fiddlier to work with, being launched from Terminal, using external configuration files, and demanding its disk images be converted to a new and high-fidelity format. After some experimentation with the program and checking of its home page, I decided to take a quick look at a particular book promoted there that described the Apple II’s hardware. Then, on seeing where the book was available, I got to wondering what “old computing” documents might have been added to the Internet Archive of late. Pushing a long way down a list with mild interest, my mood changed all of a sudden when I saw a title I’d long been aware of only to search for on occasion without success.
( Back to 1977 )