Dates & Milestones
Event | Dates | Speaker | Keynote Title/Topic | Important Events |
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1st | Jul 21-22, 1989 | Bill Mensch | Beyond The 65816 | Called "A2-Central Summer Developer Conference"; formation of Apple II Developer Association |
2nd | Jul 20-21, 1990 | Fern Bachman, Jim Merritt, Jim Mensch, and Greg Blanche from Apple | Apple IIGS System Software Update | Called "A2-Central Summer Conference" |
3rd | Jul 16-21, 1991 | Roger Wagner | "Why The Apple IIGS Is Such A Freakin' Great Machine" | First time it was referred to as "KansasFest". Held at the NOMDA conference center, with housing and meals at Avila. System 6.0, HyperCard IIGS v1.1, Ethernet card, and SuperDrive card announced. |
4th | Jul 21-26, 1992 | Tim Swihart | The Apple II Continuation Engineering Group | 15th anniversary of Apple II. Sessions at NOMDA, housing at Avila. Resource Central takes over APDA (Apple Programmers and Developers Association) materials. |
5th | Jul 22-24, 1993 | Mike Westerfield | "Amateur Programming for Fun and Profit" | Apple II's "Sweet Sixteen" party. First year of "Bite the Bag" and Tie One On contest. |
6th | Jul 21-23, 1994 | Randy Brandt | "Confessions of a Primordial Programmer" | Called "ICONference"; held entirely at Avila. |
7th | Jul 27-29, 1995 | Roger Wagner | The Impact of Computers on Education / Personal History With The Apple II | First post-Resource Central event. |
8th | Jul 17-21, 1996 | Gary Utter | The Future Of The Apple II Community | Gary Utter's Declaration of Independence from Apple, Genie, and any other company, that it was time for Apple II users to take control of their own destiny. Demo of Gus Apple IIGS emulator, and Wolfenstein 3D for the IIGS |
9th | Jul 30-Aug 3, 1997 | David Kerwood | Apple II and Telecommunications | First demonstration of Richard Bennett's Marinetti TCP/IP CDev for the Apple IIGS. Early demo of Apple IIGS emulator Bernie ] |
10th | Jul 22-26, 1998 | Mike Westerfield | Origins to ORCA | First Hackfest and first door sign contest, and Wolfenstein 3D Shootout. |
11th | Jul 21-25, 1999 | Max Jones | Past, Present, and Future of the Apple II | First release of Silvern Castle, and first visit to Sean Fahey's garage o' Apple II stuff. |
12th | Jul 26-30, 2000 | Ryan Suenaga | The Community and The Apple II | "Y ] |
13th | Jul 25-29, 2001 | Eric Shepherd | A Call To Arms To Support The Apple II Community | First demo of Syndicomm Online, the planned transfer of Juiced.GS to Syndicomm, and release of several CD-ROM collections. |
14th | Jul 23-28, 2002 | Tony Diaz | Tour of KFest Past | First KFest Kookout, first Krispy Kreme donut night. First demo of Rich Dreher's CFFA card. |
15th | Jul 22-27, 2003 | Steve Wozniak | Stories by Woz | Tiger Learning Computer demo, Jeri Ellsworth's "AnyCard". |
16th | Jul 20-25, 2004 | Steve Weyhrich | The Classic Car That Is The Apple II | Final year at Avila University. |
17th | Jul 18-23, 2005 | Ray Merlin | Mainframes And Micros | First year at Rockhurst University. |
18th | Jul 17-22, 2006 | Eric Shepherd | The Need To Re-energize The Apple II Community | Introduction of Sweet16 Apple IIGS emulator for Mac OS X, and of the Apple II podcast A2Unplugged. |
19th | Jul 22-27, 2007 | David Szetela | From Nibble To Apple | First demo of Michael Mahon's AppleCrate parallel processing machine. |
20th | Jul 22-27, 2008 | Lane Roathe | Programming Games For Fun And Profit | The return of AppleCrate, now with 17 motherboard processing power. |
21st | Jul 21-26, 2009 | Jason Scott | Preserving Our Digital Past | |
22nd | Jul 20-25, 2010 | Mark Simonsen | TimeOut For Beagle Bros | First presentation of "Apple ] |
23rd | Jul 19-24, 2011 | Bob Bishop | Apple-Vision Of The Past | |
24th | Jul 17-22, 2012 | John Romero | The Apple II Was About Games |
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