A Geek Goes Flying

My History with the Apple II Apple //e My first computer was an Apple //e, which started off as the "family" computer but, when a blended family brought an Apple //c into the fold, moved into my room for late night hacking sessions. (I was 9 or 10.) That machine was pretty nicely equipped, for the day. It had an Apple IIe Extended 80-Column RGB Card  that boosted the RAM from 64K to 128K, a DuoDisk unit with dual 143K SS/SD floppy disk drives, an AppleColor 100 RGB monitor , an Apple ][ Mouse Card and mouse , an Applied Engineering Datalink 1200 modem, a SuperSerial Card , and a Kensington System Saver (fan/surge protector/front-facing power switch). It was a pretty bomb little machine, running AppleWorks 3.0 with Beagle add-on software, Publish It!, etc. I also hacked out a lot of AppleSoft BASIC and 6502 assembly code on that thing. It was eventually "enhanced" with the 65c02 chip and updated ROMs. It's still in boxes back in Missouri. Apple II GS

I have an ancient Samsung ML-1740 I've had forever, but it's been gathering dust for years. Samsung dropped support for Macs after Tiger (10.4), and while I kept it going for a while with the samsung-gdi package, for some reason that stopped working a few years ago and I never bothered to figure out why. (I had by then picked up an awesome   Ricoh Aficio SP 3510sf .) Anyway, after I picked up a Canon MF632Cdw (DOA 😡), I cleaned out the carcass of the MX870 ("Code B200") and the ML-1740 to make room for the big color laser all-in-one. Last I checked the Samsung was still working, so I figured I'd see if I could get it working with a reasonably modern Mac OS X version - specifically, Yosemite, the version I have running on the black MacBook4,2 I’ve donated tothe hangar for Garmin GPS programming duties and other light work. Set up Yosemite under VMware and found this package:  SpliX  Works perfectly.