Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.
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episode 105: Apple's Growing Pains
The Apple III was a pretty slick machine... in theory. From a lack of launch software, to strait up hardware failures, Apple's 3rd computer didn't really win in the market place. Why was that? Was the machine setup for failure from the start? Was it's case really designed before it's motherboard? When it comes to the III there's a surprising amount of folklore to untangle. Selected Sources: https://archive.org/details/sim_byte_1985-01_10_1/page/166/mode/1up?view=theater - Interview with Wozniak that covers the III https://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/appleIII/sandersinterview.html - Sander discussing the project https://archive.org/details/apple-design/page/n14/mode/1up?view=theater - AppleDesign http://www.applelogic.org/AIIIDesignBugs.html - AppleLogic