6/9/2007 - apple II videoclip the apple two

Back when I was in elementary school, the biggest thing in personal computing and in the schools was the Apple II. It was a multi-purpose computer that became a hit with schools and small businesses. The only thing I really remember about it was playing Oregon Trail on it and that it used floppies (when floppy disks were really floppy).

Computers back then were marvels at efficiency. Just think, the Apple II had 48 kilobytes of RAM maximum. Yes, that's kilobytes, not megabytes, and certainly not gigabytes. Compare that to today's computers where you pretty much need 1 gigabyte of memory to run Windows Vista. Of course, things were a lot simpler, not having any kind of graphical user interface at all.

That's where the programmers come in. This video shows how simple animated text can make for a good music video. This is not something you can lay out in a Macromedia Flash movie... this was written in pure BASIC, the first programming language I learned. You'll actually see the code typed out at the end of the video. As a former programmer, I know how difficult this was to pull off... especially getting the timing to work with the lyrics.