Here’s a fun one for the Apple geeks in the crowd. Take this in.
One Stewart Smith came to know that the good folks over at Panic Software (the makers of my favorite Mac FTP program, Transmit) had an old Apple //e sitting all alone in their office. This was of interest to him, because he wanted to see if he could use it to run an old text animation he created in 2005 for a band named ‘Grandaddy’. Here’s his email to Panic:
I just saw some photos of your office and couldn’t help but notice an Apple //e. I have an odd request. Back in 2005 I created a music video for the band Grandaddy by programming a text animation on an old Apple ][+. You can see the video here.
So for my request: would you do me the honor of running the source code on your old Apple //e and sending a few pictures? (Or even posting them to your Flickr?)
I imagine you could load the code onto the old machine by using my “cassette tape” source code file.
After reading the email, Panic quickly obliged, but there was one problem. Panic didn’t have the cassette deck needed to run the code. This is where it gets interesting.
With no cassette deck in-hand, Panic looked around for something appropriate to run the source code. An iPad was spotted. The rest, as they say, is history. Check out the video for yourself over at Panic Software.
Am I the only one that finds this ridiculous, yet awesome!? I can remember clunking away on our old Apple //e years and years ago… In fact, I bet you that old system is still somewhere at the old house. Hmmm… Maybe I should go grab it, hook it up to the iPad and see what happens!? 🙂