Welcome to the
BIG APPLE USERS GROUP
THE KNICKERBOCKER APPLEKNOCKERS
Big Apple is our
name
Backward compatibility is our game.
The Big Apple Users Group is an on-line computer club and website in New York City for users of Apple II and vintage Mac computers. You are welcome whether you are a novice or a power user.
KANSAS FEST
Apple II &
Macintosh Expo
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KFest 2010, Summer Camp for Geeks, scheduled for July 20-25, 2010 in Kansas City, Mo. Stay tuned for further developments.
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For PHOTOS of KFESTs past go to the
KFest Photo Galleries.
Thanks to the contributors and to Ken Gagne for curating the collection.
VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL
The Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists will present the Vintage Computer Festival East on Sept. 12-13, 2009, at the InfoAge Science Center.
At the VCF 9.00 which was held at the Computer History Museum on Nov. 4 & 5, 2006, there was a 30th anniversary celebration of the original Apple computer.
APPLE II WEBSITES
Re: Apple II computers, Apple II compatible computers, and Apple II emulators.
The on-line headquarters for Apple II matters: A2 Central
Read about the history of the Apple II on Steve Weyrich's Apple II History website.
OUR MEMBERS' WEBSITES
VINTAGE MAC STUFF
For an interesting history of the Mac, visit the Apple & Mac History page by Dan Knight on the Low End Mac website.
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Vintage
Macs - aka Legacy Macs - had serial ports (as did the Apple II)
- 68K MACS: the original Macs with 68000 series Motorola processor chips.
- "OLD WORLD" POWER MACS:
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The "old world" PowerMacs with 601, 603, or 604 IBM chips. They were
informally designated as G1 or G2, as follows:.
- G1: 601 PowerMacs - the first generation of PowerMacs
- G2: 603 and 604 PowerMacs - the second generation of PowerMacs. Sometimes included in this category are the early beige G3 models with serial ports.
"NEW WORLD" POWER MACS
- Users of iMac, ibook, G3, G4,and G5 PowerMac and PowerBook should visit MetroMac, a Mac user group in NYC. These computers, based on the G3, G4, and G5 IBM chips, have USB ports, and some recent models also have wireless ports.
INTEL MACS
With Intel Core Duo chips: iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini
Visit MetroMac user group in NYC.
UNIX
Mac users interested in Unix on the Mac should visit the Lower East Side Mac Unix Users Group in NYC.
The Fink Project which ports some Debian Linux software to Darwin and Mac OSX.
OPEN SOURCE
See Electronic Freedom Foundation re digital rights management and trusted computing.
The Free Software Foundation as in free speech and not as in free beer.
Apple loses court appeal against online journalists.
Why Apple snubs its open source geeks.
REUNION 2003
We held our
REUNION PIZZA SIG
at the V & T Restaurant
at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, October 29, 2003
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using
WebWorksGS.
Jim O'Reilly maintained it originally with an Apple
IIgs using a Unix shell and maintains it now with a G3 iBook under
Mac OSX using a Unix shell.
Apple II Forever!
Updated June 23, 2005