My INIT HELLO Presentation A transcription of my Apple II Ebook Talk

New blog post: a transcription of my talk at @init-hello.org on July 27, including the Q&A. nantucketlit.com/blog/2025/08... I discuss the Apple II floppy disk edition of my new anthology Overscan, and how I worked with @dinchenix.bsky.social on the cover art. #nantucketlit #freeculture #inithello

Let's chat about #INITHELLO and blow up some more Covenant today at 12:00 PM EDT! More OG #Halo played on my MDD G4!

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A crowd of people gathered outside the brick exterior of a building. The marquee on the building reads System Source.

New blog post: my weekend at INIT HELLO, a new Apple II convention in Baltimore. I met a lot of good people, and shared my upcoming anthology Overscan. nantucketlit.com/blog/2025/08... #INITHELLO @init-hello.org @atgonzalez.bsky.social @kari.bsky.social

Come watch us stream the INIT HELLO Megapodcast live on YouTube 2-3pm EDT (right now)!

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#INITHELLO #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #podcast #livestream #AppleII #Apple2Forever #video #retro #nostalgia

INIT HELLO 2025 Conference My personal photo gallery of the INIT HELLO 2025, an Apple II conference held at the System Source Computer Museum outside Baltimore, MD

My photos from this weekend's INIT HELLO Apple II conference:

What a wonderful time it was!

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#INITHELLO #AppleII #Apple2Forever #vintageApple #SystemSource #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computers #computinghistory #vintage #photo #gallery

IBM PCjr with 4 sidecar expansion modules

Back home from INIT HELLO, the new Apple II conference, at the System Source Computer Museum in Baltimore.

Here's a well-expanded IBM PCjr.

TI-99/4A: "Hold my beer..."

#INITHELLO #vintatgecomputing #retrocomputing #computers #photo #IBMPC #PCjr #SystemSourceIComputerMuseumBN

Home from #INITHELLO and I am exhausted. Going to spend a few days becoming one with the sofa. Luckily most of the unloading is from the car to the garage :D

Aaaaaand that's a wrap on the inaugural #INITHELLO! Thanks to everyone who came out to support us! Looking forward to doing this again next year!

Nicholas Bernhard stands at a podium in the System Source Computer Museum. The slide show presentation discusses the origins and mission of Nantucket Lit: plain-text markup to different formats, free software, and free culture. The slide also includes the Nantucket Lit mascot Otto: an ASCII-art whale.

Thank you to #INITHELLO for the chance to talk about my Primeval Machine Book format. I've been working on this for quite a whle, and I was glad to finally share it with you.

The talk was recorded, and I will posting a transcription to my blog this week. @init-hello.org @atgonzalez.bsky.social

Various folks at tables with retro computers

Getting spun up for the econd day of #INITHELLO!

was looking forward to seeing the fujinet presentation and workshop at #INITHELLO this weekend

Thank you all for a wonderful first day of #INITHELLO! Looking forward to tomorrow!

Tomorrow at #InitHello, there should be a Shufflepuck tournament! I'm anxious to see it 😊

#RetroComputing #AppleII

Photo of the presentation of 21st century print shop

I love that enthusiasts continue to write new software for 8-bit computers, like this Print Shop style program for the Apple II being presented at the INIT-HELLO conference :) #InitHello #apple2 #RetroComputing

Watching @lainenooney.bsky.social’s keynote talk at #inithello @init-hello.org

INIT_HELLO - Twitch You have a diskette and you want to start fresh. So you run “INIT HELLO” on your Apple II and you get a clean slate. Watch this space for more details about the clean slate that is coming.

INIT HELLO is now live on Twitch! twitch.tv/init_hello

#INITHELLO #AppleII #Apple2

INIT HELLO - July 26-27, 2025 in Hunt Valley, MD A new Apple II conference is coming to the System Source Computer Museum north of Baltimore, Maryland, this July 26–27, 2025.

Enjoying my first retro-computer conference, INIT-HELLO! Keynote presentation by Laine Nooney about to start… #InitHello #RetroComputing
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Starting soon! #inithello

Cray supercomputer at the System Source Computer Museum in Baltimore

This place cray!

#INITHELLO #SystemSource #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #mainframes #cray #MD #museum

I cannot believe this is really happening! #INITHELLO

A ad broken Imagewriter II printer.

There must always be an Imagewriter II on the free pile! #INITHELLO