The Internet Archive now hosts thousands of classic Apple II computer games as part of its Apple II Library: The 4am Collection, and all featured games are playable for free in modern web browsers.

If you've still got an Apple II computer, you'd better install the new software update. The Apple II launched in 1977, and went on to sell over 5 million units over the next two decades. The success ...

The computer family from Apple that pioneered the microcomputer revolution. It was widely used in schools and home and manufactured up to 1994. Using an 8-bit 6502 microprocessor running at 1 MHz and ...

Personal computers have come a long way since the days of the Altair and the Apple I. While those computers were formative experiences for those of us who still remember when floppy disks were ...

June 5, 1977: The first Apple II, the personal computer that will put Cupertino on the map, goes on sale. Previously shown off to a few thousand rabid fans at the West Coast Computer Faire, the Apple ...

I recently interviewed Dan Budiac, a Web developer who picked up an Apple II on eBay. That in itself is nothing unusual; nostalgia strikes all of us at one point or another. What makes Dan’s story ...

On July 4, as I arrived at my parents’ house for a week away from the Orbiting Ars Headquarters, I inherited a family heirloom of sorts: my father asked me if I’d want to take custody of an Apple II ...

We all remember the video games of our youth fondly, and many of us want to relive those memories and play those games again. When we get this urge, we usually turn first to emulators and ROMs. But, ...

In its day, the Apple II computer didn’t typically require active cooling. However, the increasing scarcity of replacement hardware convinced [Joshua Coleman] to come up with a more robust active ...

Apple Extended Keyboard II was the successor to, surprise, the Apple Extended Keyboard. Extended means that it had arrow and function keys, something the original Mac keyboard lacked. Steve Jobs hated ...

If you thought Apple computers were expensive, you haven’t seen what their manuals go for. Boston-based RR Auction on Thursday sold an Apple II manual signed by the company’s late co-founder Steve ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1976, computer pioneers Steve ...