http://www.osnews.com/story/10085/Book_Review_Apple_I_Replica_Creation_Back_to_the_Garage_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:54:34 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? just a question: is that paid advertising or not? Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? No, it is not a paid advertising. It's just that when a reader actually buys it through that link osnews gets about 1 or 2% of the book's price.
Many people online have such amazon accounts and so when somebody buys it through their link they are able to get a bit of money back to sustain server costs. Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? "Apple I Replica Creation: Back to the Garage"

I mis-read that as "Back to the Garbage".

When I lived out in South Africa, a friend of mine was a geologist and he insisted on using an Apple//e up until 2002. He just couldn't bring himself to use anything else. Appaently Verbatim still produced 5.1/4 inch disks until just recently, bizarrely.

Anyway, he got a powerbook. Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? The 6502 was my favorite processor. It was simple to program, and oh so much fun. The only opcode i still remember in hex is LDA #xx(A9 xx) . Device drivers were also a breeze to program(since you had to build the hardware )

Ahh, the good old days Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Seems to be a great and fun book! I will buy this one for sure as soon as possible. Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Eugenia, this means, you earn money for everyone who buys this book because of your recommendation.

Don't you really see that this leads to the question wether the review was written a little bit more friendly to the book for that reason?

Is the money you gain really worth the credibility gap? Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I actually used one... back when I was 7 in the 70s. Apple had Bell & Howell do the manufacturing. Played Oregon Trail and Colossus cave on that box. Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? >you earn money for everyone who buys this book

No I don't. And neither is the author. The OSNews owner does.
(and usually that's not more than 6-7 bucks per such article)

>wether the review was written a little bit more
> friendly to the book for that reason?

I can assure it was not. The author is a simple osnews contributor, not an osnews editor, neither an osnews employee. He just wrote his article, and he submitted it to us for publication.

And besides, look at most book reviews out there. Most sites have such accounts with amazon or BarnesNNobles too. Maybe they don't have the big eye-sore link we do, but their links are also of this nature. Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? "Device drivers were also a breeze to program(since you had to build the hardware ) Ahh, the good old days "

LOL One of the best jokes I've read in ages Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? If his old computer does what he needs, why change it? Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Love the old days! Nowadays, hardware is just too freaking complex. There's nothing you can do with it, with reasonable tools and eyesight. And now, when they kill off the serial and parallel ports from PCs ('cause they "have to be USB, can not stand vintage"), even doing simple peripherals will be much harder.

Anyway, I love my Apple IIe, just wish I had a color monitor for it. Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Well I wouldn't want to go so far back as a 6502 anything, but if someone ever does a 68K retro Mac (I have 4 oldies & roms) that would be a neat HW project. Or even the much underrated but slowish 9900, not the TI pc, but the whole world of industrial/embedded stuff it was seriously used for.

Right now HW design has gotten to be right on the edge of barely being doable by even an advanced hobhyist/EE with todays latest FPGAs having speeds far beyond table top equipment, BGAs having invisible connects, highly stacked boards for signal integrity, too serious.

I do miss wirewrapping boards just a little and knowing it would just work, today its gotten so abstract.

Still a small readymade FPGA board (Xess, Digilent etc) with onboard video, PS2, serial, headers, DRAM/SRAM can easily be used to build any retro HW from Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I bought the book yesterday, and my Replica I arrives next month. I agree with the reviewer -- the author did an excellent job, particularly in the digital logic and assembly language chapters. Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments