The Complete Historically Brewed – Book Review

David Greelish is known to many in the computing community as an evangelist of classic computing.

The extent of his interest has garnered such projects as the Classic Computing blog, Retro Computing Roundtable podcast, Stan Viet’s History Of The Personal Computer podcast, and the Classic Computing Show podcast.

Clearly David has many achievements to his name but his main achievement is his magazine publication; Historically Brewed.

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Liquid Metal – TechFan Podcast #73

What the heck is Liquid Metal? You will have to listen to this episode of TechFan to find out. Also, is digitizing archival materials actually good? The original Prince of Persia for the Apple II has it’s source code released, and it’s David’s birthday!

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Do Apple’s Education Announcements Pave the Way for the ePad?

Apple’s January 19th education event brings the iPad to the forefront as an educational tool to replace textbooks and classroom computers.  Apple is once again focusing on the K-12 education market, a market it dominated in the early 1980’s with the Apple II.  But is the iPad really the device Apple is focusing on here?  Or is there another device in Apple’s future that this event is paving the way for?  I think Apple needs a new device, I call the ePad.

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