Open Apple #32 (Nov 2013): Bill Martens, history, Apple founders, and WOZPAK
Episode description
This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Bill Martens of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Preserving our community’s software and documentation is important not just to the users, but to the people doing the preserving; Bill explains why. We look at how the media can never get enough of Steve Jobs, examining his early career and denoting his boyhood home as a historical landmark — but Woz gets his time in the spotlight too, on panels about Atari, the Jobs movie, or a Homebrew Computer Club reunion. Highlighted eBay auctions include the ten rarest and most expensive games and yet another Apple-1. Finally, Brian Wiser joins us to discuss The WOZPAK Special Edition, a book that made its debut at KansasFest 2013 alongside its creator, Steve Wozniak.
Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.
- November, by Thomas Hood
- Apple2Pi by David Schmenk
- A2CLOUD & A2SERVER, by Ivan Drucker
- BrickPi combines Raspberry Pi with Lego Mindstorm
- Send voicemail to Open Apple
- Ken’s MacBook Pro USB ports are fried :(
- Ken needs a new camera and printer
- Replacing the Pinnacle Video Transfer System with the Elgato Game Capture HD
- Bill Martens of Call-A.P.P.L.E.
- The history of A.P.P.L.E., founded by Val Golding
- Apple Archives: The Best Vintage Apple and Macintosh Websites
- Apple II Scans
- Virtual Apple ][
- William Martens on Wikipedia
- Wendell Sander’s Apple 1 Project
- iPod interface to Apple 1 Cassette Board
- Apple IIc clear case prototype
- Charles Mangin’s Apple IIe Card Y-Cable
- Jeri Ellsworth’s castAR Kickstarter
- Time capsule buried by Steve Jobs in 1983 finally found
- Steve Jobs’ Crist Drive, Los Altos house reviewed for historical designation
- Steve Wozniak, Dan Kottke & Andy Hertzfeld discuss the film Jobs
- Steve Wozniak and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell recall Steve Jobs and early Apple memories together
- 8 reasons why Woz still matters
- Wheels of Zeus
- US Festival 1982
- A.P.P.L.E. presents: The Woz Speaks DVD
- Sound of the dial-up modem explained and pictured
- Secrets of the little blue box
- Ron Rosenbaum’s “Steve Jobs and Me”
- Homebrew Computer Club reunion Kickstarter
- VCF Europe & VCF Midwest
- Jonathan Zufi adapts the Shrine of Apple into Iconic coffee table book, as featured in the Wall Street Journal
- 9 museums that want your legacy tech
- How LucasArts fell apart
- Top 10 most valuable computer games for the Apple II on eBay
- Apple-1 computer for auction at Breker (w/YouTube video)
Retroviews (1:25:37 – 1:54:42)
- Brian Wiser’s previous appearance on Open Apple
- The WOZPAK Special Edition
- RetroMacCast‘s look at the original WOZPAK
- Done the Impossible: The fans’ tale of Firefly & Serenity
- Wil Wheaton — Why it’s awesome to be a nerd