October 27, 2005

It seems that I and my blog readers are not the only ones in the world that hold vintage machines in high regard. The band Grandaddy chose a rather interesting medium through which to express the music video of its song "Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)" [iTMS link] from the album The Sophtware Slump. Indeed, the video is a program written in Applesoft BASIC on a 48K Apple ][+, circa 1979. The video was created by Stewart at stewdio.org and the filming involved simply pointing a video camera at the monochrome display of the Apple ][+.

The song is a pleasing, ethereal piece and the video is, as you might expect, wonderful to behold. Quite a throwback.

Those interested may also enjoy another retro computer video, "Hey Hey 16K".

October 15, 2005

A few months back I mentioned that I had procured a rather clean Apple //c setup to take to the office, mainly as just an interesting bit of decor. Well, after a few months of sitting on the dining room table (much to my wife's dismay), the system has finally landed on one of my office desks. Though I've not used it more than a few minutes since it arrived in its new home, it has turned out to be quite the conversation piece.

At any rate, I've taken a photo of the system in its new digs. (Earlier photos found here.) Have a look, why don't you?