Mastodon will run on an ancient Apple IIe, if you try hard enough
If you have a working Apple IIc or ][e, before you try auctioning it off for cash, use it to read social media platform Mastodon. Here's how.
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Apple II
William Gallagher
How Apple owes everything to its 1977 Apple II computer
It's the Apple II that made the company, kept it afloat, and even made it a cult success — but it was also the Apple II that Steve Jobs tried so hard to kill off with the Mac. It's the little machine that could, did, and for its fans, still does.
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Steve Jobs' hero Buckminster Fuller thought Apple II was a toy
Famed designer, architect and philosopher Buckminster Fuller had a private talk with Steve Jobs in the early days of Apple, but one of them was more impressed than the other.
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Steve Jobs and Apple Auction includes autograph, bomber jacket, Apple-1
Another Apple-centric auction is spinning up that that boasts an Apple II manual signed by Steve Jobs and Mike Markkula, Jobs' famous leather jacket, and plenty of other Apple memorabilia.
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Amber Neely
Tim Cook celebrates Apple's 40 years in Singapore
CEO Tim Cook has marked four decades of Apple in Singapore by revealing that his first Apple product was the Apple II, manufactured there.
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Steve Wozniak's handwritten Apple II schematics fetch over $630,000 at auction
Boston's RR Auction held an Apple-themed auction, in which they sold both a fully operational Apple-1 computer as well as a 23-page handwritten document by Steve Wozniak detailing notes and diagrams for the Apple II breadboard.
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Documents unearthed from early Apple history show shift in company focus from hobbyists to businesses
A series of documents discovered at a thrift store in Seattle examines Apple's mindset in the late '70s and early '80s as it shifted from a hobbyist company to one interested in gathering, and retaining business clients for its Apple II series of computers.
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Mike Wuerthele
