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Packet ManDecember 31, 1999 7:00 pm | by Roger Brown, Editorial Director | Comments
Mark Coblitz has everyone faked out. His vast knowledge of arcane RF transport issues, the intricacies of TCP/IP protocol stacks, packet-based telephony and myriad other subjects often lead people, including engineers, to think he is one, but surprise! He's not. Similarly, some might see the bookish redhead as little more than a quiet, introspective thinker.
New millennium, new revenue streamsDecember 31, 1999 7:00 pm | by Thomas G. Robinson, Executive Vice President, CBG Communications | Comments
According to a recent study by Standard & Poor's, the cable industry will need to rapidly escalate revenues to the equivalent of just under $100 per subscriber per month in order to recoup acquisition costs (and this does not include capital expenditures related to network upgrades). While growth in residential market revenue streams is key, the time is certainly ripe for the business infra...
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Four or five years ago, when competitive pressures were leading many cable operators to consider offering telephony services over their networks, the process of upgrading cable networks to carry power for telephone services topped engineering discussions. Those conversations covered a range of issues, from the shift to 90 volts from 60 volts, to technician safety and the corrosive effects of pa...
The COFDM problemDecember 31, 1999 7:00 pm | by Jeffrey Krauss, Digital TV Dawdler and and President of Telecommunications and Technology Policy | Comments
Broadcasters have a problem. Sinclair Broadcasting has petitioned the FCC to allow the use of COFDM (Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modulation as an alternative to 8-VSB for digital broadcasting, because it appears that COFDM does a better job of correcting dynamic multipath interference.
Serendipity in PhiladelphiaDecember 31, 1999 7:00 pm | by Roger Brown, Editorial Director | Comments
During my meeting with Mark Coblitz in Comcast's opulent Philadelphia headquarters, it became obvious to me that it was extremely wise to select him as CED's Man of the Year. I had heard him speak before, most recently at a CableLabs-sponsored PacketCable briefing. I recall being impressed by his ability to "talk tech" and also being surprised when he said he wasn't an engineer by trade.
Aiming for eyeballsDecember 31, 1999 7:00 pm | by Fred Dawson, Contributing Editor | Comments
The two leading cable data service providers are putting a new generation of broadband content tools to use in aggressive growth strategies that represent clashing views of cable's future. With some 1.5 million cable subscribers between them, Excite@Home Inc. and Road Runner are pulling out all the stops to capitalize on their advanced infrastructures to deliver eye-popping content and ads that...
Evaluating VOD deployment optionsNovember 30, 1999 7:00 pm | by Quintin Williams, Director of Sales, Eastern Region, Concurrent Computer Corp | Comments
The digital age is now upon us. With millions of digital set-tops now deployed in cable networks, and thousands more being installed every week, network operators are beginning to look beyond simple broadcast services toward new, interactive services, One service that many operators are banking on is video-on-demand.
Products of the MillenniumNovember 30, 1999 7:00 pm | by Craig Kuhl, Contributing Editor | Comments
It allowed cable to penetrate major U.S. markets, and most experts agree this single event forever changed the cable industry and defined it as a legitimate communications medium. Yet with each step the industry takes, cutting-edge technologies and dazzling new hardware are proving to be its hallmark, and are expected to lead cable into a new millennium of great promise, great technologies and ...
What ever happened to digital radio?November 30, 1999 7:00 pm | by Jeffrey Krauss, Enhanced Digital Listener and President of Telecommunications and Technology Policy | Comments
Sometimes, the development of new technology takes much longer than expected. Consider, for example, CD-quality, terrestrial digital radio broadcasting. Work has been underway for at least 10 years on various schemes to migrate from analog FM radio broadcasting to digital broadcasting. (See June 1991 "Capital Currents.
Converging Video, Voice, and High-Speed DataNovember 30, 1999 7:00 pm | by Stephen D. Dukes, Vice President, Digital Broadband Technology, MediaOne Labs | Comments
With the advent of new services, the need for additional routing fabric grows beyond the capacity of a typical headend. The headend has traditionally consisted of equipment focused strictly on the broadcast of analog video and audio signals. However, with the introduction of new services and technologies such as high-speed data, circuit switched telephony, Internet telephony, and digital video ...
DSL technology looms ever largerNovember 30, 1999 7:00 pm | by Fred Dawson, Contributing Editor | Comments
Recent technical advances in DSL equipment have vastly transformed the prospects for telcos and other users of telco wires in the intensifying battle for broadband service customers. Support for self-installation, including use of "splitterless" digital subscriber line systems, and new miniaturized components that make it possible to deploy DSL into remote areas which were unreachable heretofor...
Crafting in - home Internet services for mass marketsNovember 30, 1999 7:00 pm | by David Benham, Manager of Product Marketing, Consumer LIne of Business, Cisco Systems | Comments
Science fiction, move over. The New World network for the home is on the horizon. And it's fundamentally changing the way people will communicate and exchange information. Thanks to broadband access, futuristic networked services and appliances in the home-previously the realm of inspired science fiction writers-are now emerging and potentially profitable.
Delivering advanced servicesNovember 30, 1999 7:00 pm | by Roger Brown, Editor-Chief; and Bill Menezes | Comments
As the world prepares to leave the 20th century behind, the traditional "cable TV" industry is undergoing dramatic change. Networks are being digitized and fiberized to allow myriad new services to be transmitted to consumers. Digital video, high-speed data and telephony services are about to reach the mass market.
Lucent Settles Into Cable's NeighborhoodOctober 31, 1999 7:00 pm | by Craig Kuhl, Contributing Editor | Comments
Lucent Technologies' emerging role as an equipment and service provider to the cable industry, along with its growing technical contributions through its association with CableLabs, are helping to drive the company deeper into cable's neighborhood. The well-heeled Bell Labs cousin is getting serious about its cable business, evidenced by a 1999 flurry of key acquisitions, strategic alliances an...
TCA launches modem self-insallation programOctober 31, 1999 7:00 pm | by Aleksandr Milewski, Senior Field Applications Engineer, Terayon Communications Systems | Comments
One of the greatest challenges facing MSOs is how to deploy data service systems quickly and cost-effectively in order to build revenue and recoup start-up costs faster. But if it takes a truck roll and a specialist to install every cable modem, how can deployment be either rapid or inexpensive? TCA Cable TV, now a part of Cox Communications, met this challenge with an aggressive subscriber mod...


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Michael Stallings' latest acting gig was one that came naturally.
The technical sergeant at Eglin Air Force Base portrayed an army lieutenant assigned to the personal security detail of a two-star general amid a terrorist attack on the White House in the new action flick "Olympus Has Fallen."
"I kind of got lucky with it," Stallings said. "I showed up on set and they asked, 'Who knows how to drive a Humvee?' "
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"Olympus Has Fallen" stars Morgan Freeman, Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart. Most of it had been shot when Stallings arrived in New Orleans to film his scenes.
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Stallings, who is from South Dakota, began acting and studying the craft in 2010 after he arrived at Eglin, where he works in the fuel shop. In 2011 he won a part in Stage Crafter's production of "Sin, Sex and the CIA."
"It's been a passion of mine since I was a little kid," he said. "I love the Air Force but I would love to pursue acting."
After landing his first speaking part in a motion picture, Stallings is ready for more.
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I kind of didn't want to get into the issue because the rest of the world has been going on and on about it, but people really do care about Obama's birth certificate.
It ceased being a fringe issue because even people like Donald Trump were starting to wonder, three years later, why Obama had this keep-away-like-a-school-yard-bully attitude about it. Now everyone wants to know why it took him so long to release it.
Is that really a mystery? The man is a narcissistic a-hole who thought the birthers could be made into kooks who would only get crazier the longer he ignored them.
He finally had to blink because the honeymoon for him was over, and he finally figured it out. Even his own reflection doesn't approve of the job he's doing. Just like in any relationship, familiarity with someone brings a heightened sense of awareness of their flaws. Yet, he wants us to think that he released it because we're being distracted by "sideshows."
Sideshows? SIDESHOWS?!? This man's entire presidency has been a big circus of political freakishness, his birth certificate was just the opening act...
The insistance to add a trillion dollar entitlement to our fiscal house of cards when people wanted a focus on the economy.
The vacations and golfing during times of crisis.
The constant humiliation of Israel, our ONLY real friend in the middle east.
The hypocritical lectures on shared sacrifice while his wife vacations on our dime.
The insistance on a civilian trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City.
His support for a mosque called Cordoba House (until people caught on and they had to change the name to Park 51), a word symbolic of Muslim conquest, blocks away from Ground Zero.
After two years of seeing this guy be aloof to the things Americans actually care about, the royal "we" (conservatives knew all along) have started to wonder whose side this real American idiot is really on.
People see the crap he's done and the idiotic positions that he takes, and they see how nothing in the country has improved. They're not even seeing a hint that it might improve. In fact, they see tangible evidence that the age of America is over, and the doubt planted 3 years ago begins to understandibly take root.
Our narcissist-in-chief lived in a bubble of media love for so long he began to overestimate the patience the American people have for even the leaders they like.
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Pumpkin Seeds "Lady Nails" Roasted Unsalted$3.40
Pumpkin seeds
Pumpkins are a member of the gourd family. Pumpkin seeds are sometimes called Pepitas. Roasted pumpkin seeds have a slightly nutty flavor and a somewhat chewy texture. They are extremely healthy and delicious eaten as a snack or added to some of your favorite recipes.
Health benefits
- Pumpkin seeds provide health benefits for your heart.
- They also support your nervous system.
- Pumpkin seeds are beneficial to good bone health.
- For men, pumpkin seeds provide health benefits for the prostate.
Nutrition facts
- Pumpkin seeds are an excellent source of magnesium, manganese, and phosphorus.
- They are also a good source of B1, B2, Niancin, B6 Folic acid, protein, iron, fiber, and Vitamin K.
Culinary uses
- Roasted pumpkin seeds can be sprinkled on a variety of vegetables. They are especially delicious sprinkled on various types of greens.
- They can be added to your morning cereal or oatmeal.
- When baking breads, muffins, and cookies, adding pumpkin seeds to the mixture will increase the nutritional value of the finished product.
- One other way to incorporate pumpkin seeds into you cooking is to add them to hamburgers, turkey burgers, or veggie burgers.
Varieties Available
Pumpkin seeds are a great addition to trail mixes and granola. You can buy premium pumpkin seeds (Pepitas) in bulk online so that you will conveniently have them available. When you buy bulk amounts of pumpkin seeds, it is best to store them in the refrigerator rather than storing them in a container in the cabinet or on a kitchen shelf. The following varieties are available in bulk.
- Raw Petitas
- Roasted, salted Petitas
- Roasted, unsalted Pepitas
- Pumpkin seeds "Lady's Nails" salted
- Pumpkin seeds "Lady's Nails" unsalted


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Throughout the 1980s and much of the 1990s, the Apple II was the de facto standard computer in American education; some of them are still operational in classrooms today. The Apple II was popular with business users as well as with families and schools, particularly after the release of the popular spreadsheet, VisiCalc, which initially ran only on the Apple II.
The original Apple II operating system was only the built-in BASIC interpreter contained in ROM. Apple DOS was added to support the diskette drive; the last version was "Apple DOS 3.3". Apple DOS was superseded by ProDOS to support a hierarchical filesystem and larger storage devices. With an optional Z80 based expansion card the Apple II could even run the popular Wordstar and dBase software under the CP/M operating system. At the height of its evolution, towards the late 1980s, the platform had the graphical look of a hybrid of the Apple II and Macintosh with the introduction of the Apple IIGS. By 1992, the platform featured 16-bit processing capabilities, a mouse driven Graphical User Interface and graphic and sound capabilities far beyond the original.
After years of focus on Apple's Macintosh product line, it finally eclipsed the Apple II series in the early 1990s. Even after the introduction of the Macintosh, the Apple II had remained Apple's primary revenue source for years: the Apple II and its associated community of third-party developers and retailers were once a billion-dollar-a-year industry. The Apple IIGS model was sold through to the end of 1992. The Apple IIe model was removed from the product line on October 15, 1993, ending an era.
The Apple II had color and high-resolution graphics modes, sound capabilities and one of two built-in BASIC programming languages (initially Integer, later Applesoft). Compared with earlier microcomputers, these features were well-documented and easy to learn. The Apple II sparked the beginning of the personal computer revolution, as it was targeted for the masses rather than just hobbyists and engineers; its introduction and subsequent popularity also greatly influenced most of the microcomputers that followed it. VanLOVEs Apple Handbook and The Apple Educators Guide by Gerald VanDiver and Rolland Love reviewed more than 1,500 software programs that the Apple II series could use. The Apple dealer network used this book to emphasize the growing software developer base in education and personal use. The books became part of the Apple program and became the first book on database.
In 1978, an external 5¼-inch floppy disk drive, the Disk II, attached via a controller card that plugged into one of the computer's expansion slots (usually slot 6), was used for data storage and retrieval to replace cassettes. The Disk II interface, created by Steve Wozniak, was regarded as an engineering masterpiece at the time for its economy of components. While other controllers had dozens of chips for synchronizing data I/O with disk rotation, seeking the head to the appropriate track, and encoding the data into magnetic pulses, Wozniak's controller card had few chips; instead, the Apple DOS used software to perform these functions. The Group Code Recording used by the controller was simpler and easier to implement in software than the more common MFM. In the end, the low chip count of the controller contributed to making Apple's Disk II the first affordable floppy drive system for personal computers. As a side effect, Wozniak's scheme made it easy for proprietary software developers to copy-protect the media on which their software shipped by changing the low-level sector format or stepping the drive's head between the tracks; inevitably, other companies eventually sold software to foil this protection. Another Wozniak optimization allowed him to omit Shugart's Track-0 sensor. When the Operating System wants to go to track 0, the controller simply moves forty times toward the next-lower-numbered track, relying on the mechanical stop to prevent it going any further down than track 0. This process, called "recalibration", made a loud buzzing (rapid mechanical chattering) sound that often frightened Apple novices.
The approach taken in the Disk II controller was typical of Wozniak's design sensibility. The Apple II was full of clever engineering tricks to save hardware and reduce costs. For example, taking advantage of the way that 6502 instructions only access memory every other clock cycle, the video generation circuitry's memory access on the otherwise unused cycles avoided memory contention issues and also eliminated the need for a separate refresh circuit for the DRAM chips.
Rather than using a complex analog-to-digital circuit to read the outputs of the game controller, Wozniak used a simple timer circuit whose period was proportional to the resistance of the game controller, and used a software loop to measure the timer.
The text and graphics screens had a somewhat outdated arrangement (the scanlines were not stored in sequential areas of memory) which was reputedly due to Wozniak's realization that doing it that way would save a chip; it was less expensive to have software calculate or look up the address of the required scanline than to include the extra hardware. Similarly, in the high-resolution graphics mode, color was determined by pixel position and could thus be implemented in software, saving Wozniak the chips needed to convert bit patterns to colors. This also allowed for sub-pixel font rendering since orange and blue pixels appeared half a pixel-width further to the right on the screen than green and purple pixels.
Color on the Apple II series took advantage of a quirk of the NTSC television signal standard, which made color display really easy (and cheap) to implement. The original NTSC television signal specification was black-and-white. Color was tacked on later by adding a 3.58 MHz subcarrier signal that was ignored by B&W TV sets. Color is encoded based on the phase of this signal in relation to a reference color burst signal. The result is that the position, size, and intensity of a series of pulses define color information. These pulses can translate into pixels on the computer screen.
The Apple II display provided two pixels per subcarrier cycle. When the color burst reference signal was turned on and the computer attached to a color display, it could display green by showing one alternating pattern of pixels, magenta with an opposite pattern of alternating pixels, and white by placing two pixels next to each other. Later, blue and orange became available by tweaking the offset of the pixels by half a pixel-width in relation to the colorburst signal. The high-resolution enhanced display offered more colors simply by compressing more, narrower pixels into each subcarrier cycle. The coarse, low-resolution graphics display mode worked differently, as it could output a short burst of high-frequency signal per pixel to offer more color options.
The epitome of the Apple II design philosophy was the Apple II sound circuitry. Rather than having a dedicated sound-synthesis chip, the Apple II had a toggle circuit that could only emit a click through a built-in speaker or a line out jack; all other sounds (including two, three and, eventually, four-voice music and playback of audio samples and speech synthesis) were generated entirely by clever software that clicked the speaker at just the right times. Not for nearly a decade would an Apple II be released with a dedicated sound chip. Similar techniques were used for cassette storage: the cassette output worked the same as the speaker, and the input was a simple zero-crossing detector that served as a relatively crude (1-bit) audio digitizer. Routines in the ROM were used to encode and decode data in frequency shift keying for the cassette.
Wozniak's open design and the Apple II's multiple expansion slots permitted a wide variety of third-party devices to expand the capabilities of the machine. Apple II peripheral cards such as Serial controllers, improved display controllers, memory boards, hard disks, and networking components were available for this system in its day. There were emulator cards, such as the Z80 card that permitted the Apple to switch to the Z80 processor and run a multitude of programs developed under the CP/M operating system, including the dBase II database and the WordStar word processor. (At one point in the mid-1980s, more than half the machines running CP/M were Apple II's with Z80 cards.)There was also a third-party 6809 card that would allow OS-9 Level One to be run. The Mockingboard sound card greatly improved the audio capabilities of the Apple, with simple music synthesis and text-to-speech functions. Eventually, Apple II accelerator cards were created to double or quadruple the computer's speed.
The Apple II Plus was otherwise identical to the original Apple II. The smaller memory sizes were no longer available, so the II Plus always had a total of 48 kB of RAM, expandable to 64 kB by means of the "language card", a 16 kB RAM expansion card that could be installed in the computer's slot 0. The Apple's 6502 microprocessor could support a maximum of 64 kB of memory, and a machine with 48 kB RAM reached this limit because of the additional 12 kB of read-only memory and 4 kB of I/O addresses. For this reason, the extra RAM in the language card was bank-switched over the machine's built-in ROM, allowing code loaded into the additional memory to be used as if it actually were ROM. Users could thus load Integer BASIC into the language card from disk and switch between the Integer and Applesoft dialects of BASIC with DOS 3.3's INT and FP commands just as if they had the BASIC ROM expansion card. The language card was also required to use the UCSD Pascal and FORTRAN 77 compilers, which were released by Apple at about the same time. These ran under a non-DOS operating system called the UCSD P-System, which had its own disk format and included a "virtual machine" that allowed it to run on many different types of hardware. The UCSD P-system had a curious approach to memory management, which became even more curious on the Apple III.
The Apple II Plus was followed in 1983 by the Apple IIe, a cost-reduced yet more powerful machine that used newer chips to reduce the component count and add new features, such as the display of upper and lowercase letters and a standard 64 kB of RAM. The IIe RAM was configured as if it were a 48 kB Apple II Plus with a language card; the machine had no slot 0, but instead had an auxiliary slot that for all practical purposes took the place of slot 3, the most commonly used slot for 80 column cards in the II Plus. The auxiliary slot could accept a 1 kB memory card to enable the 80-column display. This card contained only RAM; the hardware and firmware for the 80-column display was built into the Apple IIe, remaining fairly compatible with the older Videx-style cards, even though the low-level details were very different. An "extended 80-column card" with more memory expanded the machine's RAM to 128 kB. As with the language card, the memory in the 80-column card was bank-switched over the machine's main RAM; this made the memory better suited to data storage than to running software, and in fact the ProDOS operating system, which was introduced with the Apple IIe, would automatically configure this memory as a RAM disk upon booting. Third-party aux-slot memory cards later allowed expansion up to 1 MB. The 80-column card also enabled one new graphics mode, Double Lo-Res (80×48 pixels); the extended 80-column card enabled two, Double Lo-Res and Double Hi-Res (560×192 pixels). Both modes doubled the horizontal resolution in comparison to the standard Lo-Res (40×48) and Hi-Res (280×192) Modes; in the case of Double Hi-Res, the number of available colors was increased as well, from 6 to 15. Apple IIe's from the very first production run cannot use Double Hi-Res. Neither of these modes was directly supported by the built-in BASIC, however, so the user had to resort to the use of lots of POKE and CALL commands, or assembly language programming, or one of a number of software Toolkits to exploit these modes.
Introduced with the IIe was the DuoDisk, essentially two Disk II 5¼-inch drives in a single enclosure designed to stack between the computer and the monitor, and a new controller card to run it. This controller was (by design) functionally identical to the original Disk II controller but used a different connector, allowing a single cable to control both drives in the DuoDisk. The DuoDisk was plagued by reliability problems, however, and did not catch on as well as the Apple IIe itself.
The Apple IIe was the most popular Apple II ever built and was widely considered the "workhorse" of the line. It also has the distinction of being the longest-lived Apple computer of all time — it was manufactured and sold with only minor changes for nearly eleven years. In that time, following the original, two important variations came to pass known as the Enhanced IIe (four new replacement chips to give it some of the features as the later model Apple IIc, including an upgraded processor called the 65C02) and Platinum IIe (a modernized new look for the case color to match other Apple products of the era, along with the addition of a built-in numeric keypad). An Enhanced IIe with 128 kB of RAM can be considered the minimum requirement for running most Apple II software released after about 1988.
Two and a half years before the Apple IIe, Apple had produced and marketed a computer called the Apple III for business users. This product was not a success, and Steve Wozniak has been quoted as saying that the Apple III had a 100% failure rate — every single machine manufactured had some kind of fault. Many of its features were carried over in the design of the Apple IIe, though, including the ProDOS operating system, which was based on Apple III's Sophisticated Operating System (SOS).
The Apple IIc was the first Apple II to use the updated 65C02 processor, and featured a built-in 5.25-inch floppy drive and 128 kB RAM, with a built-in disk controller that could control external drives, composite video (NTSC or PAL), serial interfaces for modem and printer, and a port usable by either a joystick or mouse. Unlike previous Apple II models, the IIc had no internal expansion slots at all, this being the means by which its compact size was attained. Third parties did eventually figure out how to wedge up to 1 MB of additional memory and a real-time clock into the machine, and a later revision of the motherboard provided an expansion slot that could accept an Apple memory card bearing up to 1 MB of RAM. The disk port, originally intended for a second 5¼-inch floppy drive, eventually was able to interface to 3½-inch disk drives and (via third parties) even hard disks.
To play up the portability, two different monochrome LCD displays were sold for use with the IIc's video expansion port, although both were short-lived due to high cost and poor legibility. (An Apple IIc with the smaller of these displays appeared briefly in the film 2010.) The IIc had an external power supply that converted AC power to DC, allowing third parties to offer battery packs and automobile power adapters that connected in place of the supplied AC adapter.
The Apple IIc (in its American version) was the first microcomputer to include support for the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, which was activated using a switch above the keyboard. This feature was also later found in late-model American Apple IIe computers (though the switch was inside the computer) and in the Apple IIGS (accessible via the built-in control panel). The international models used the same mechanism to switch between the localized and the American keyboard layouts, but did not offer Dvorak.
The next member of the line was the Apple IIGS computer, released in September 15, 1986. A radical departure from the existing Apple II line, the IIGS featured a true 16-bit microprocessor, the 65C816, operating at with 24-bit addressing, allowing expansion up to 8 MB of RAM without the bank-switching hassles of the earlier machines (RAM cards with more than 4 MB were never directly supported by Apple). It introduced two completely new graphic modes sporting higher resolutions and a palette of 4,096 colors; however, only 4 (at 640×200 resolution) or 16 (at 320×200 resolution) colors could be used on a single line at a time, although a technique known as dithering was often employed in software to increase the number of perceived colors.
In a departure from earlier Apple II graphics modes, the new modes laid out the scanlines sequentially in memory. However, programmers in search of a graphics challenge could always turn to 3200-color mode, which involved precisely swapping in a different 16-color palette for each of the screen's 200 scanlines as the monitor's electron beam traced the screen line by line. This exotic technique did not leave many CPU cycles available for other processing, so this "mode" was best suited to displaying static images.
The Apple IIGS stood out from any previous (or future) Apple II models, evolving and advancing the platform into the next generation of computing while still maintaining near-complete backward compatibility. The secret of the Apple IIGS's compatibility was a single chip called the Mega II, which contained the functional equivalent of an entire Apple IIe computer (sans processor), which, combined with the flawless 65C02 emulation mode of the 65C816 processor, provided full support for legacy software.
The computer also included a 32-voice Ensoniq 5503, 'wavetable' sample-based music synthesizer chip with 64 kB dedicated RAM, 256 kB of standard RAM, built-in peripheral ports (switchable between IIe-style card slots and IIc-style onboard controllers for disk drives, mouse, RGB video, and serial devices), built-in AppleTalk networking, and a ROM toolbox that supported a graphical user interface derived from the Macintosh toolbox. The computer could run existing 8-bit Apple II software (including software written for the very first Apple II in Integer BASIC), but also supported 16-bit software running under a new OS first called ProDOS 16 and later called GS/OS. The new OS eventually included a Finder that could be used for managing disks and files and opening documents and applications, along with desk accessories — just like the Macintosh. The 16-bit operating system would automatically switch to the text display and downshift to 8-bit mode to run legacy software, while offering a consistent, Macintosh-like graphical interface for native 16-bit applications. Eventually the IIGS gained the ability to read and write Macintosh disks and, through third-party software, even multitasking (both cooperative and preemptive, the latter in the form of a Unix-type shell), outline TrueType font support, and in one case, even real-time 3D gaming using texture mapping.
The first 50,000 Apple IIGS computers came with Steve Wozniak's "Woz" signature silkscreened on the front and were referred to as the "Woz Limited Edition". These machines are not functionally different from machines from the same time period without the signature.
The final Apple II model was the Apple IIc Plus introduced in 1988. It was the same size and shape as the IIc that came before it, but the 5¼-inch floppy drive had been replaced with a 3½-inch drive, the power supply was moved inside (gone was the IIc's "brick on a leash" power supply), and the processor was a fast 65C02 processor that actually ran 8-bit Apple II software faster than the IIGS. (Third-party accelerators for other models could, however, go as fast as , and IIGS accelerators would eventually reach .) The IIc Plus's accelerator was derived from a design licensed from Zip Technologies, a third-party maker of accelerators for the Apple II, though Apple used separate chips instead of combining the processor, cache, and supporting logic on a multi-chip module as did Zip. Like later models of the original Apple IIc, the IIc Plus included a memory expansion slot that would accept a daughter-card carrying up to a megabyte of RAM. The IIc Plus also featured a new keyboard layout that matched the Platinum IIe and IIGS. Unlike the IIe, IIc and IIGS, the IIc Plus came only in one version (American) and was not officially sold anywhere outside the USA.
Many perceived the IIc Plus as Apple's attempt to compete with the Laser 128EX/2, a popular third party Apple-compatible machine that also had an accelerated processor and a built-in 3½-inch drive. There were few other rational explanations for Apple expending resources on the continued development of a new 8-bit Apple II model rather than furthering the 16-bit Apple IIGS. However, with its 3½-inch drive and speedy processor, it was an excellent, compact machine for running the AppleWorks integrated productivity package, especially with the 1 MB memory upgrade.
Another card available from Apple was the Apple II ProFile card. This card attached to the Apple ProFile Hard Disk that was initially designed for the Apple III computer. The ProFile was available first in a 5 MB configuration and later in a 10 MB one.
Despite withholding advertising and little corporate support, Apple continued to sell the IIGS throughout 1992. Apple brought an era to a close when the IIe was removed from the product line on October 15, 1993.
Apple ran the first advertisement for the Apple II in the July 1977 edition of Byte — a two page spread ad titled "Introducing the Apple II" and followed by a third page that was an order form. The first brochure, was entitled "Simplicity" and the copy in both the ad and brochure pioneered "demystifying" language intended to make the new idea of a home computer more "personal." The Apple II introduction ad was later run in the September 1977 issue of Scientific American.
Apple later aired eight television commercials for the Apple IIGS, emphasizing on its benefits to education and students, along with some print ads.
Towards the end of 1982, art director Brent Thomas and Steve Hayden came up with the idea of doing an ad campaign based on the timely tagline "Why 1984 won't be like 1984". Chiat-Day shopped it around to a number of clients, including Apple, where it was proposed to be used for a print ad in the Wall Street Journal promoting the Apple II. However, Apple did not go for it, and the idea was filed away until the spring of 1983, when they met with the Macintosh marketing team to start working on the launch, which was scheduled for January 1984. The idea eventually became the famous 1984 commercial which aired during the third quarter at Super Bowl XVIII.
The Apple II was frequently cloned, both in the United States and abroad - similar cloning of the IBM PC later occurred. According to some sources (see below), more than 190 different models of Apple II clones were manufactured. Many of these had "fruit" names (e.g. "Pineapple") to indicate to the initiated that they were Apple II clones. For many years the most widely-used microcomputers in the Soviet Bloc were the Agat, an oversized Russian Apple II clone with a Cyrillic character set, and Bulgarian Pravetz series 8, a close Apple II replica with Cyrillic support.
A Bosnian (at the time part of communist Yugoslavia) company named IRIS Computers (subcompany of biggest electric company in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia ENERGOINVEST) has produced Apple II clones since the early 1980s. Their official brandname was IRIS 8. They were very expensive and hard to obtain and were produced primarily for usage in early computerised digital telephone systems and for education. Their usage in offices of the state companies, R&D labs and in the Yugoslav army was also reported. IRIS 8 had looks of early IBM PCs — separate central unit with cooling system and two 5¼-inch disks, monitor and keyboard. Compatibility with original Apple II was complete. Elite high schools in Yugoslavia and especially Bosnia and Herzegovina were equipped with clusters of 8, 16 or 32 IRIS 8 computers connected in local network administrated by IRIS 16 PC clone. The number of IRIS 8's produced could be as many as a couple of tens of thousands.
An Australian-produced clone of the Apple II was the Medfly, named after the Mediterranean fruit fly that attacks apples. The Medfly computer featured a faster processor, more memory, detached keyboard, lower and upper case characters and a built-in disk controller.
Unitron, a Brazilian company, produced another clone, named ApII. Unitron used a copy of the Apple's ROM translated to Portuguese. The operating system was Apple's DOS 3.3 translated to Portuguese. During this period, it was illegal to import microcomputers in Brazil, and buying those (illegal) clones was the only way to have a microcomputer. Unitron stopped manufacturing the ApII a few years after the introduction of IBM PC clones in Brazil.
The Ace clones from Franklin Computer Corporation are the best known and had the most lasting impact, as Franklin copied Apple's ROMs and software and freely admitted to doing so. Franklin's argument: a computer's ROM was simply a pattern of switches locked into a fixed position, and one cannot copyright a pattern of switches. Apple fought Franklin in court for about five years to get its clones off the market, and was ultimately successful when a court ruled that software stored in ROM was in fact copyrightable in United States. (See Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp.) Franklin later released non-infringing but less-compatible clones; these could run ProDOS and AppleWorks and had an Applesoft-like BASIC, but compatibility with other software was hit-or-miss.
Apple also challenged VTech's Laser 128, an enhanced clone of the Apple IIc first released in 1984, in court. This suit proved less fruitful for Apple, because VTech had reverse-engineered the Monitor ROM rather than copying it and had licensed Applesoft BASIC from its creator, Microsoft. Apple had neglected to obtain exclusive rights to the Applesoft dialect of BASIC from Microsoft; VTech was the first cloner to license it. The Laser 128 proved popular and remained on the market for many years, both in its original form and in accelerated versions that ran faster than . Although it wasn't 100% compatible with the Apple II, it was close, and its popularity ensured that most major developers tested their software on a Laser as well on as genuine Apple machines. Because it was frequently sold via mail order and mass-market retailers such as Sears, the Laser 128 may have cut into the sales of low-cost competitors such as Commodore Business Machines as much as it did Apple's.
While the first Apple II clones were generally exact copies of their Apple counterparts that competed mainly on price, many clones had extra capabilities too. A Franklin model, the Ace 1000, sported a numeric keypad and lower-case long before these features were added to the Apple II line. The Laser 128 series is sometimes credited with spurring Apple to release the Apple IIc Plus; the built-in 3½-inch drive and accelerated processor were features Laser had pioneered. The Laser 128 also had a IIe-style expansion slot on the side that could be used to add peripheral cards.
Bell & Howell, an audiovisual equipment manufacturer whose products (particularly film projectors) were ubiquitous in American schools, offered what appeared at first glance to be an Apple II Plus clone in a distinctive black plastic case. However, these were in fact real Apple II Plus units manufactured by Apple for B&H for a brief period of time. Many schools had a few of these Black "Darth Vader" Apples in their labs.
ITT created a clone for the European market called the ITT 2020 (Europlus). This clone was built in license from Apple and was thus officially sanctioned by Apple. It has the same shape as the Apple II but a different color (matte silver).
The Disk II floppy drive used 5¼-inch floppy disks. The first disk operating systems for the Apple II were DOS 3.1 and DOS 3.2, which stored 113.75 kB on each disk, organized into thirty-five tracks of thirteen 256-byte sectors each. After about two years, DOS 3.3 was introduced, storing 140 kB thanks to a minor firmware change on the disk controller that allowed it to store 16 sectors per track. (This upgrade was user-installable on older controllers.) After the release of DOS 3.3, the user community discontinued use of DOS 3.2 except for running legacy software. Programs that required DOS 3.2 were fairly rare; however, as DOS 3.3 was not a major architectural change aside from the number of sectors per track, a program called MUFFIN was provided with DOS 3.3 to allow users to copy files from DOS 3.2 disks to DOS 3.3 disks.
On a DOS 3.x disk, tracks 0, 1, and most of track 2 were reserved to store the operating system. (It was possible, with a special utility, to reclaim most of this space for data if a disk did not need to be bootable.) A short ROM program on the disk controller had the ability to seek to track zero — which it did without regard for the read/write head's current position, resulting in the characteristic "chattering" sound of a Disk II boot, which was the read/write head hitting the rubber stop block at the end of the rail — and read and execute code from sector 0. The code contained in there would then pull in the rest of the operating system. DOS stored the disk's directory on track 17, smack in the middle of the 35-track disks, in order to reduce the average seek time to the frequently-used directory track. The directory was fixed in size and could hold a maximum of 105 files. Subdirectories were not supported.
Most game publishers did not include DOS on their floppy disks, since they needed the memory it occupied more than its capabilities; instead, they often wrote their own boot loaders and read-only file systems. This also served to discourage "crackers" from snooping around in the game's copy-protection code, since the data on the disk wasn't in files that could be accessed easily.
Some third-party manufacturers produced floppy drives that could write 40 tracks to most 5¼-inch disks, yielding 160 kB of storage per disk, but the format did not catch on widely, and no known software was published on 40-track media. Most drives, even Disk IIs, could write 36 tracks; simple modifications to DOS for formatting the extra track were common.
Incidentally, although the Apple Disk II stored 140 kB on single-sided, "single-density" floppy disks, it was very common for Apple II users to extend the capacity of a floppy disk to 280 kB — by cutting out a second write-protect notch on the side of the disk using a "disk notcher" (although a simple hole puncher would do) and inserting the disk flipped over. Early on, diskette manufacturers routinely warned that this technique would damage the read/write head of the drives or wear out the disk faster, and these warnings were frequently repeated in magazines of the day. In practice, however, this method was a quite reliable way to store twice as much data for the same amount of money, and was widely used for commercially released floppies as well.
Later, Apple IIs were able to use 3½-inch disks with a total capacity of 800 kB and hard disks. DOS 3.3 did not support these drives natively; third-party software was required, and disks larger than about 400 kB had to be split up into multiple "virtual disk volumes." ProDOS, a 1983 descendent of the Apple ///'s SOS, became the Apple II operating system of choice for users with these larger disks thanks to its native support of volumes up to 32 MB in size and the fact that AppleWorks required it.
Today, emulators for various Apple II models are available to run Apple II software on Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, homebrew enabled Nintendo DS and other operating systems. Numerous disk images of Apple II software are available free over the Internet for use with these emulators. AppleWin and MESS are among the best emulators compatible with most Apple II images. The MESS emulator supports recording and playing back of Apple II emulation sessions. The Home Action Replay Page (aka HARP) allows Apple II users to archive their favorite play sessions of the Apple II system and its games. However, many emulators cannot run software on copy-protected media, or can run only software employing fairly simple protection schemes, unless it is "cracked" (copy restrictions removed). Cracked software was widely pirated in the Apple II's heyday (with commercial cracking software such as the popular Copy II+ program being sold in stores with the purpose of "creating legitimate back-ups" of protected software), and some of it is still available, although use of such software is of questionable legality (see DMCA). For those who prefer to obtain their old software legally, the Lost Classics Project has the goal of convincing copyright holders of classic Apple II software to officially allow unrestricted free distribution of their software and has "freed" a number of programs.
One unusual homage to the Apple II is an XScreenSaver "hack" named bsod. The bsod screensaver duplicates the appearance of computer crash screens for various operating systems (including the Windows Blue Screen of Death, after which it is named). In the case of the Apple II, the screensaver actually emulates the CRT display typically used with the computer, so the screen will appear to twitch as text blocks turn on and off, a common quirk of analog NTSC displays. Another module called "Apple2" shows a working Apple II being used to type and run three different programs in Applesoft BASIC, also with glitch-complete CRT emulation and even typos (or "syntax errors"), though the error messages are displayed at edit time (like Integer BASIC) instead of at run time (like Applesoft BASIC).
In addition, an active retrocomputing community of vintage Apple II collectors and users, continue to restore, maintain and develop hardware and software for daily use of these original computers. Numerous websites and support groups exist for these enthusiasts who engage in the trade and purchase for their collections, increasingly rare parts and systems. Hardly a dead platform, the Apple II has a worldwide network of kindred spirits actively engaged in preserving this otherwise outdated technology and indeed regularly attracts, new younger members who continue to keep the platform alive long after it was discontinued by Apple.
The success of the Apple II in business spurred IBM to create the IBM PC, which was then purchased by middle managers in all lines of business to run spreadsheet and word processing software, at first ported from Apple II versions; later, whole new application software dynasties would be founded on the PC. The popularity of these PCs and their clones then transformed business again with LAN applications such as e-mail and later Internet applications such as Usenet and the WWW.
One valuable lesson from the Apple II was the importance of an open architecture to the success of a computer platform. The first Apple IIs shipped with an Apple II Reference Manual containing a complete schematic of the entire computer's circuitry and a complete source listing of the "Monitor" ROM firmware that served as the machine's BIOS (later this guide had to be purchased separately, and in the case of the Apple IIGS, the full technical documentation ran to several volumes). The Apple II's slots, allowing any peripheral card to take control of the bus and directly access memory, enabled an independent industry of card manufacturers who together created a flood of hardware products that let users build systems that were far more powerful and useful (at a lower cost) than any competing system, most of which were not nearly as expandable and were universally proprietary. Even the game port was unusually powerful and could be used for digital and analog input and output; one hacker used it to drive a LaserWriter printer.
Apple decided not to create an open architecture with the initial Macintosh models, and this is widely seen as having hobbled its success; however, the IBM PC provides an object lesson that success for the platform does not necessarily equate to success for the company that invented it. In the end, the IBM PC's off-the-shelf, open architecture allowed clones to be manufactured by startup competitors such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway, leading to a Pyrrhic victory for IBM. In December 2004, IBM confirmed it had sold its personal computer division including all computer models and technology to Lenovo in the People's Republic of China for US$1.75 billion.


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Carissa Moore Wins The 2011 ASP Women's World Title
After watching Carissa Moore win the season opening Roxy Pro Gold Coast, we knew this day would come. While the other girls were surfing extremely well, Carissa was simply better. We said it then, her performance was groundbreaking and she could have waxed a few of the guys on tour that day. A World Title seemed imminent, but when I interviewed her after the win at Snapper she dismissed the notion.
While Carissa never finished below the runner up position all year (an amazing feat in itself) that's not to say her maiden World Title came easily—her main rival (and close friend) Sally Fitzgibbons, put up a hell of a fight, winning two events in a row, but just this morning in France the Aussie was unable to get past Stephanie Gilmore in the semifinals of the Roxy Pro. It's ironic that Stephanie, who's had the women's World Title on lockdown for the last couple of years, was the one to hand Carissa her World Title.
Congratulations Carissa! The world of women's surfing is making he strides and we couldn't think of a better girl to represent that movement! See below for quotes from Carissa…
-"I dreamed of surfing at this level my whole life since I was a little kid and I don't think you can ever expect or anticipate the feeling."
-"I'm not really feeling anything right now I'm just so happy."
-"I've been thinking about this for a long time—since I was a little girl—and just to be here right now and being world champ is pretty crazy."
-"I have had this goal written on my door and it has been waiting there for a long time to be ticked off so I can't wait to go home and cross it out."
-"I definitely first and foremost want to thank my little sister Cayla, thank you so much—I wouldn't be here without you."
-"My Dad has been here every step of the way and I could not have done this without him. It is so much sweeter having him part of my team."
-"I want to thank my sponsors Nike, Target and Red Bull I couldn't do it without them. My family, my uncles and aunts and my grandparents."
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We first met Bernie, Simeon, and Adam Chodosh over a cappuccino in BarItalia in Soho, London a few weeks ago. Less than five minutes into themeeting it seemed as though we had known Bernie for years. And the carstories just flowed.
Bernie is a 52-year-old Brit who's been into American cars and racingsince he was 13. His love for the hot-rod scene and the cars thatcomprise it started when he traveled from his home in England toCalifornia with his parents in the early '60s. "I saw these amazing carswith bits taken off them exposing the wheels and engines, and that wasit," he says, smiling as if it were yesterday. "So, as soon has I wasold enough, I started to race cars, and I've been mucking about withYank cars ever since."
At the age of 16, he started to race karts. A year later he obtained hisdriver's license, which allowed him to race down the nearest dragstripin whatever car he happened to get his hands on. "Back then," he says,grinning again, "you raced whatever you were driving--we all did. I got the bug in a big way, and it's still with me," he laughs.
That same year, Bernie bought his first American car, an early '60sDodge Dart with a 318 under the hood. "I got it because it looked like acool American car," he says. Insurance was high even then for a17-year-old, so as his passion for hot rods developed, Bernie boughtcars that were stripped down to at least look fast even if they weren't.There followed a succession of American cars--including a '32 Fordthree-window coupe, an E83 woodie, and a '28 Model A two-door sedan--mostof which Bernie hot-rodded after purchase.
Even then, one of his favorite cars was the Corvette. "I've always likedVettes, but as a kid I never thought I'd own one. Back in the '60s and'70s they were always out of the price range of us normal Joes," hesays. "To run a Corvette back in the day, you had to be a film star or anight-club owner or entertainer--you know, people like that."
In the early '80s Bernie started to bring in cars from the States andsell them in the UK. He remembers finding himself in some out-of-the-wayplace in the middle of America, buying an old '55 Chevy or the like thathe could sell back home for 2,500 to 5,000 pounds. He suddenly realizedhe could expend the same amount of effort buying and sellingbetter-quality cars that would sell for 10,000 pounds or more. The onlydifference was the initial outlay of cash. Once Bernie worked that out,he started looking exclusively for Corvettes, and his love affair withChevrolet's two-seat sports car began in earnest.
We asked him if he ever considered keeping any of the Corvettes hebought. "Sometimes," he replied. "I used to buy around four or fiveCorvettes at any one time, and, on one trip, one of the cars I got was aCoddington Corvette." He then described in great detail the black-on-red'56 convertible. "This car was beautiful, and I decided to keep it.Anyway, four months down the line some geezer made me an offer Icouldn't refuse. And to be truthful, I've never been able to hold on toanything like that."
The need for speed took over in the late '70s when Bernie got his handson an old Vette engine and spent the next few months messing around withit. "Yeah, I remember taking it down the strip and thinking I'd donepretty good running 13s," he laughs. "Then the next guy would go and runa second-and-a-half quicker. I thought, That's not a big difference, Ican do that. But we all know it's more difficult than it sounds.
"But, I'll tell you, those guys back then knew what they were doing.They really knew their engineering and how to massage the last ounce ofpower out of their engines."
One day in the late '80s, a friend suggested to Bernie they go toSilverstone to watch some circuit racing. In one of the races, Bernienoticed a '69 big-block Corvette on the front row. As the race started,he looked at his friend and said, "That's the car for me," and neverlooked back.


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There are as many ways to define "fun" as there are Corvette owners. Some define it as restoring or preserving an ultra-rare Corvette, while others describe the process of turning a worn or trashed Vette into a modern-tech Vette Rod. In the case of Chris Mazzilli, his definition of fun with his Corvette is an active one. "For me, any collector car I have, I drive," he says from his home in New York City.
This Monza Red '69 is actually Chris' second Corvette, the successor to a C3 featured here in Corvette Fever back in November 2005 ("Sunfire at Sundown"). While researching that Shark's history, Chris located one of its previous owners, Bobby Chestnut-whose '06 C6 you saw here in January ("Subtle in Red"). "We became good buddies, and he said, 'Look-I love that car. If there's any way that you could sell it back to me, I'd really, really appreciate it," Chris recalls. "He said, 'I'm going to sell something else, and when I get the money, would you sell it back to me?'" Eventually, that 454-powered '71 made its way back to Bobby's garage, and Chris searched for another Corvette-specifically, another chrome-bumper, big-block-powered C3.
The search took him to the Internet, and to Corvette Mike's in Southern California, where this L36-powered '69 Stingray was part of the inventory. Looking into its history, Chris discovered that it was ordered new for the original owner's wife-which explained the power steering, brakes, windows, and M40 TurboHydramatic. Also on it: rare options like shoulder belts, rear window defogger, and the red leather interior that made it into only 180 other '69 Corvettes.
A sale to its second owner, Peter Cassini (the owner of Cobra Racing Boats), took this meticulously-maintained drop-top from Ohio to Pennsylvania, where it was judged for the first time at an NCRS meet, winning its first Top Flight. In 2000, the third owner bought it at the Barrett-Jackson collector-car auction, and after two more owners, it wound up at Corvette Mike's hands with only about 54,000 original miles on it. That's when Chris bought it and shipped it across the country to his New York home.
Chris enjoyed it as he'd found it for just over a year, but he saw that some work would need to be done. "When I got the car, it had most of its original paint on it," he remembers about the original Monza Red acrylic lacquer, which was now showing its age. "I'd thought about painting it with lacquer, but it's not the same lacquer that GM painted Corvettes with." As you may know, strict environmental laws enacted in recent years all but did away with lacquer paints for restorations, forcing restorers and painters to choose more environmentally friendly ways to paint. In Chris' case, the choice was a modern basecoat/clearcoat version of the '69 Monza Red hue. "We didn't buff it out, because I didn't want it to be too shiny," he says of the paintwork done by Marty Coven at Gibraltar Collision in Floral Park, New York. "That's because I was going to have the car NCRS judged, and they're fussy about basecoat/clearcoat paints being too shiny. But he did a nice job of applying the paint."
While the '69 was being prepped for paint, Chris made another change: replacing the non-original sidepipes that were on the car with an original-style, under-the-car exhaust system. Some other needed mechanical work was also done, especially to the brakes, by Dave Weber at North Shore Corvettes in Oyster Bay, New York, who also did the NCRS prep, and Chris had a 427-powered Vette that was ready for both driving and showing. He's received NCRS Top Flight honors with it, scoring a 95.4 last May and a 97.3 this past September.
Not only is Chris' '69 a looker, but it's a great performer, too. "The car runs great," he says proudly. "It starts right up all the time. That L36 engine is a great, streetable engine. The car is set up for cruising-it has 3.08s out back. You jump in with the top down in the summer-there's nothing better."
Like many Corvette lovers, Chris' fondness for 427s started early. "What hooked me on Vettes was that the guy who cut my hair at the time was a big Corvette collector, a guy named Mike Grignon," Chris recalls. "He took me for a ride-I had to be like 8 or 9 years old-in a '67 Sting Ray convertible, a 435-horse sidepipe car, and I can remember getting in it and him starting it up, and I felt that lop-sided idle in my gut. I said to myself, 'Oh my God, this is unbelievable!' I remember him saying to me, pulling out of the parking lot, 'Hold on!' I was so in awe of the car that I wasn't paying attention. When he stepped on it, it pinned me back in the seat, and every time that he shifted it was thrust forward/thrust backward. When we came back from that ride, it was all over. It was all over!" Chris adds that Mike gave him an emblem from a Shark that he'd restored, and Chris said to himself, "Someday I'm gonna have one of these cars!"


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Rally driving in Corsica with Kris Meeke
TG's favourite rallyist takes us for a spin in his R2 Peugeot 208
Posted: 17 May 2013
People will tell you that they love speed. That they love the exhilaration and intensity and heightened state of being. Then they will be presented with a Corsican road. A road no wider than a book shelf, that's pressed halfway up a cliff face. And then they will slow down. This is where daydreams are bludgeoned by the very real chance of breaching a low wall and barelling into oblivion. Speed in Corsica is for other people. It's for professional drivers. And, rather alarmingly, me.
I'm about to experience the co-driver's seat on a Corsican rally stage. A marginally frightening opportunity we've been given by Top Gear's favourite rallyist, Kris Meeke; 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge Champion, two-time James May botherer, and the only man to drive a £150,000 Bentley Continental GT Speed on a proper World Rally Championship stage.
He's out at the European Rally Championship driving a Peugeot 208 R2 course car. The little Pugs are effectively a £31.6k entry-level rally racer in a box - they're FIA approved, and come in kit form, though you can give Pug another £16k and they'll build it for you. And while there's only a baby 1.6-litre four-pot engine producing a relatively humble 185hp and 140 lb ft of torque, Kris assures us that 'it's got a sweet little chassis'.
'We'll only get up to around 100mph today. That's a good speed though - you'll have time to look around a bit and take in the view. It's stunning, but those cliffs and boulders are a bit scary', said as if 'a bit' is the maximum amount permitted in rallying. Which I suppose it is. 'Bit of a fierce place down here'.
The 'race of 10,000 corners' has the questionable distinction of highest competitor fatality rate of any WRC round. Attilio Bettega, Henri Toivonen, Sergio Cresto, and Jean-Michel Argenti all lost their lives here, ending the legendary but treacherous Group B era in the process. As Kris says, 'Corsica can be an unforgiving place.'
Just the map of our 3.5km sliver of a stage looks intimidating, and more like a cardiogram than a road. Kris says: 'it's great to drive in Corsica unless it raining. Tends to get a bit slippy. Or if there's too much of that fine, sandy soil that's blown across the tarmac from the hills. Makes it slippy too'. Having posted myself through the roll cage, I can't help but notice a few fresh scallops of powdery earth on the roadside, and a few specks of rain on the windscreen. Oh sh...
...eep. They're a very real peril during a rally, and also the reason we're stuck at the bottom of our stage - a shepherd was overwhelmed by his herd and took a breather on the road. Kris says: 'Animals are suicidal ******** and can do a lot of damage. Makinnen crashed here in 1997 because of a cow. Best to wait and make sure the way's clear'. Some distant bleeting later, it is. We're off...
Without any low-down grunt, the first few seconds don't disappear as quickly as they would in a WRC car, but soon enough we're tacking along at 60mph. Then faster. Faster still. Now too fast. And a little faster on top. 100mph. Cracked the ton. Doesn't feel fast on the motorway, resolutely does when you're on a skin-tight sock of a road and your car sounds like Janet Street Porter shouting vowels into an empty bucket. At full race pace, when the scrubby hedges blur into a green filter over the landscape, the little Peugeot feels utterly alive. The ride is uncanny - it's perfectly, stunningly yielding, but planted with it.
Then the big corners come. The little R2 brakes infinitely more quickly than I do, Kris throwing me into the five-point harness, testes first (one of the perils of a slightly undersized race suit, apparently). Before there's time to swear, much less enter into genital feng shui, Kris has given the sequential gearbox a couple of high fives, and the tall hydraulic handbrake a long pint-pull and we're gliding round the bend.
Not skidding or screeching or juddering - gliding. From the outside rally cars look frenetic and terrifying, but inside it's an oddly serene experience. Had I not just burst my manparts, I'd say it was almost euphoric. There's a real fluidity and rhythm to it, like deep powder snowbording. You're either leaving a corner or entering one. But, as Kris puts it, "it's a tough rally, and the stakes are high here. Really high. It's stunning, but it's not a rally for daydreamers.'
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