Call -A.P.P.L.E.

Boy, this takes me back.

A friend of mine at work yesterday pointed me at an Apple II emulator called "Virtual II" and in the course of reading up about it, I found that the Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange -- an Apple user group -- is still around and they have a web site. This group used to publish a journal filled with totally interesting technical articles about the Apple II and programming. It was a major factor in my early programming hobby-turned-career. As a matter of fact, they still publish the journal, whose title "CALL -A.P.P.L.E" makes reference to an AppleSoft BASIC statement used to access machine-language subroutines in ROM or elsewhere in memory... a common practice in hackery of the day.

Ah, memories.