Jun 11, 2026 | field-update, Journal
Yesterday's piece ended with a confident claim: the audience for this journal is, in some sense, inherited from the Apple II. "Ordinary people," the inheritors of a lineage that started in 1977 with a finished box and a published schematic. I believed...
Jun 10, 2026 | field-update, Journal
Forty-nine years ago today, on June 10, 1977, the first Apple II computers shipped out of Apple's then-headquarters in Cupertino. Priced at $1,298, with 4 KB of RAM expandable to 48, the machine was not the first personal computer on the market — the Altair 8800...
