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  1. For anyone who is an old school #Apple fanatic, check out these interviews of my good friend and colleague, Jimmy Mensch, who retired from Apple in 2023 (about 6 months before I retired).

    He talks about working as an Apple Computer service technician and then starting a long and successful career at Apple working on the #AppleII #AppleIIgs #MacLC #MacOS #MacOSX Rosetta #AppleTV #iCloud, and more.

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  2. New on the blog: wrapping up this little adventure by taking the CoCo's little 6-bit DAC that you use to cycle-count out square waves and making it into a 3-voice polyphonic synthesizer with custom waveforms for each voice.

    A lot of the inspiration for this was drawn from the design of the Apple IIgs's Ensoniq chip, but it's also nice how even when the design goes its own way the pieces fall neatly into place.

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    #retrocomputing #TRS80ColorComputer #Dragon64 #AppleIIgs