Welcome to another bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough as always.

We're going to do tech history for this bonus episode, not even internet history, but

computing history, but this is a story for you Apple fans out there, for you tech fans out

there that I think is maybe sort of underserved or maybe doesn't get the attention it deserves.

We're going to go all the way back to talk about the Apple II, not even the Macintosh, the Apple II.

We're talking to Lane Nune, who is a good friend of mine.

They were very helpful when I was doing the internet history podcast when my book came out.

The book that we're talking about is the Apple 2 Age, how the computer became personal.

Lane, you are an actual historian credentialed with degrees. I always like to say, I am not. I want to make that clear but again you were super

helpful to me when I was being a I was pretending to be a tech historian.

So go ahead and introduce yourself

and let's start talking about the Apple II.

Sure thing.

Thank you so much for having me here today, Brian.

And I alleged to be a professional. You are you have the degrees. So I'm

Lane Nune, I'm an assistant professor of Media Industries at New York University and that's the fancy way of saying

that I'm a computer and video game historian that's work I've been doing ever since I started

my dissertation back in the early 2010s.

Yeah and let me flag this.

Lane was on the Internet History podcast to do an episode about Sierra online,

which if you're old enough, that was a huge computer gaming company in the 80s.

But Lane, again, like that episode, this is, I jumped at the opportunity to do this because this is right in my wheelhouse.

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