Resource Central was an Apple II

Apple II

The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced in 1977...

 publishing

Publishing

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 house in Overland Park, Kansas. It was founded by former Softalk

Softalk

Softalk was a magazine of the early 1980s that focused on the Apple II computer. Published from 1979 through 1984, it featured articles about hardware and software associated with the Apple II platform and the people and companies who made them...

 columnist and Beagle Bros

Beagle Bros

Beagle Bros was a software company that specialized in creating personal computing products that were both useful and whimsical. Their primary focus was on the Apple II family of computers.-History:...

 software author Tom Weishaar. Resource Central was responsible for many Apple II publications, including:

• Open-Apple: the flagship newsletter, published monthly. Edited by Tom Weishaar, Dennis Doms, Ellen Rosenberg.
• A2-Central: Open-Apple was eventually renamed A2-Central to avoid trademark infringement with Apple Computer.
• A2-Central On Disk: a disk based version of the newsletter, with supplemental materials to help blind users read the magazine, as well as selected shareware and freeware. Edited by Dean Esmay.
• Script-Central: a publication devoted to Apple's then-popular HyperCard
  HyperCard
  HyperCard is an application program created by Bill Atkinson for Apple Computer, Inc. that was among the first successful hypermedia systems before the World Wide Web. It combines database capabilities with a graphical, flexible, user-modifiable interface. HyperCard also features HyperTalk, written...
  
   product. Edited by Bruce "HangTime" Caplin and Bo Monroe.
• Studio-City: a publication devoted to the HyperStudio
  HyperStudio
  HyperStudio is a HyperCard clone, which appeared only a few years after the release of HyperCard, in 1988. It can be described as a multimedia authoring tool, and it provides relatively simple methods for combining varied media...
  
   hypermedia product. Edited by Dean Esmay and Bo Monroe.
• HyperActive: a multimedia arts publication

Resource Central also founded the long-running KansasFest

KansasFest

KansasFest is an annual event for Apple II computer enthusiasts. Held every July at Rockhurst University of Kansas City, Missouri, KansasFest typically lasts five days and features presentations from Apple II experts and pioneers, as well as games, fun events, after-hours hallway chatter,...

 conference and expo. Originally called the A2-Central Summer Conference and immediately dubbed "KansasFest" by attendees (combining the name of the other major Apple II event of the time, the AppleFest expo, with Resource Central's location in suburban Kansas City), KFest is still held annually.

Resource Central went out of business in the early 1990s.

In July 2010, it was announced that the entire Open-Apple and Resource Central catalog was reclassified to the Creative Commons

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3.0 Attribution License.