{"id":446,"date":"2008-04-03T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2008-04-04T19:24:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T00:24:50","slug":"april-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/446\/april-fools","title":{"rendered":"Correction: Apple IIpc Actually 3 GHz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/sitewide\/vcg_piclogo_small.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage Computing and Gaming Logo\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Yes, the last two posts on <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> were April Fools&#8217; gags.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/445\" target=\"_blank\">The first<\/a> was a legitimate TRS-80 scan that I manipulated to look freaky.  I posted it on the 31st because that was the closest Monday to April 1st (I post a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/category\/regular_features\/retro-scan-of-the-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">Retro Scan of the Week<\/a> every Monday).  You&#8217;ll notice that the ad reads &#8220;Radio Snack,&#8221; so that should be the warning sign to future alien computer historians who might think it was authentic.  Hopefully you didn&#8217;t stake your house \/ car \/ life savings on that being the real deal.  If you did, then I applaud you on your unflinching loyalty and trust in the site.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I got your hopes up with talk of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/444\" target=\"_blank\">Apple IIpc<\/a>.  Sounds like an exciting idea, doesn&#8217;t it?  With devices like the <a href=\"http:\/\/c64upgra.de\/c-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">C-One<\/a> popping up, you never know what will happen in the future.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woz.com\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Wozniak<\/a> himself said (via email) that he loved the prank, so I guess, based on that criteria alone, it was a success.  Sadly, no real Apple IIpc (that I know of) is in the works.<\/p>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s time to move on into the greater world of April.  After all, more Vintage Computing and Gaming always awaits us on the road ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the last two posts on VC&#038;G were April Fools&#8217; gags. The first was a legitimate TRS-80 scan that I manipulated to look freaky. I posted it on the 31st because that was the closest Monday to April 1st (I post a new Retro Scan of the Week every Monday). You&#8217;ll notice that the ad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-news-current-events","category-vcg-announcements","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}