Category: Apple Inc.

A Monumental Celebration of the Garage-Born Vision That Transformed Humanity’s Relationship with Technology, Creativity, and Connection   Tomorrow, April 1, 2026, marks the exact 50th anniversary of Apple Inc.’s founding. On that historic day in 1976, in a modest Los Altos garage, three unlikely partners—Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne—inked a simple partnership agreement that would ignite one of the most extraordinary journeys in business, design, and human ingenuity. What began as a hobbyist project to sell a handful…

Seattle, Washington – July 20, 2025 — Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new, expanded, color 2nd Edition of “Nibble Viewpoints: Business Insights From The Computing Revolution.” The book was first published June 26, 2016 with Mike Harvey’s enthusiasm. This new color edition adds 45 pieces of Mike’s art, over 80 magazine covers, plus an interview with Mike, a historic presentation, and stories of friendship and production details by producer Brian Wiser.  It also includes over 60…

Back in 2005, Steve Jobs gave one of the most iconic commencement speeches ever and now we know what went into the speech. The Steve Jobs Archive has released the emails that Steve sent to himself in order to create the speech. 8 emails include an outline of the speech as well as the individual pieces of the speech. The emails include individual thoughts for each section of the outline and shows a lot of how Steve thought about life…

Longtime Apple, Inc. employee, Bill Atkinson has announced that he is afflicted with Pancreatic Cancer and is currently undergoing treatment. His announcement on Facebook reads as follows: Request for PrayersNovember 12, 2024 I am asking friends and well-wishers to pray for me. I believe that group intention can actually make a difference. On October first, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Because of vascular involvement, surgery is not possible. I am taking weekly chemo treatments to shrink the tumor before…

Seattle, Washington – 28 July 2024 – Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) is proud to announce a new, ‘extra special’ 3rd Edition of The WOZPAK Special Edition: Steve Wozniak’s Apple-1 & Apple II Computers.  The WOZPAK was the first official technical resource for the Apple II computer, with original material provided directly by Steve Wozniak and Apple Computer president Mike Scott to the A.P.P.L.E. User Group. 2024 Update:  a mere 11 years after we released the “Special Edition,”  we…

Four hours of selling, buying, trading, showing off and community discussion completely free of charge thanks to generous donations from Frank Linares of Retro Rewind, Martin Jenkins, Peter Bartusek as well as the continued support of the Commodore Chronicles’ Fast Load Collective (Petzel, Pones, Nelson, BeardedSonOfNel and Nagel). Retro Rewind will be in attendance, offering their incredible products surrounding the Commodore 64, 128, Plus 4, C16 and Amiga computers as well as the Tandy COCO line of computers. See https://www.retrorewind.ca…

Cupertino, CA – The original Apple Computer, Inc. company building sign, bearing the iconic rainbow logo, faced an unexpected outcome at the Bonhams auction, failing to secure a buyer despite its historical significance and ties to the early days of Apple. The exterior office sign, crafted from stiff foam and adorned with six vinyl-applied colors, stood at approximately 46 x 49 x 1 ½ inches, with a separate stem piece. Showing signs of wear, including slight peeling at some color…

The Steve Jobs Archive has announced the release of a new book showcasing letters, photos, notes and other materials from the late tech icon’s life. The ePub format ebook, which hit the wires on April 11th, contains a timeline of speeches, interviews, and personal correspondences from Steve Jobs himself. Established by Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive, and others close to the Apple co-founder, the Steve Jobs Archive has been sharing snippets and quotes from Jobs’ life since September 2022. The…

From the europlus zone blog: Hot on the heels of WOzFest 18 I’m very happy to announce the date for the next WOzFest: WOzFest 19 will be held on Saturday 1 May 2021, starting at midday Sydney time (UTC+10:00). The theme for WOzFest 19 is “Freedom” – a good friend and frequent WOzFest attendee retires the day before, so I thought what better way to celebrate than to get together with Apple ][ enthusiasts?! I’ll leave it to attendees to interpret the theme as they see fit….

Steve Jobs would have been 66 today, Wednesday, February 24th, 2021. Born in 1955, Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56 after a long battle with Pancreatic Cancer. The co-founder of Apple, Inc. and the primary reason for the company’s resurgence in the late 1990’s and 2000’s was known for his dedicated to detail, quiet philanthropy, his dedication to pursuing the ultimate in computing integration as well as a sharp tongue and ability to take those of us…

The Steve Jobs archives, created by Art Matsak, has a new location. The archives, which runs through all the different topical videos related to Steve Jobs and his life, can now be found at:https://www.stevesarchive.com

From the europlus zone blog: I’m very happy to announce the date for the next WOzFest: WOzFest 18 will be held on Saturday 20 March 2021, starting at midday Sydney time (UTC+11:00). The theme for WOzFest 18 is “Community Service” – I’m asking attendees to bring something to upload to the Internet, to update an online resource, to do some Applesauce imaging on the night, to do some scanning, to interview a luminary via Skype…anything which contributes back to the retrocomputing community (it doesn’t even have to…

In the last issue of Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine, we wrote about Jean-Lois Gassee and his involvement in the cancellation of the Jonathan project by Apple Computer Inc.. Today in the Monday Note blog, there was a long memoir, written by Jean-Louis himself in which he talks about his time at Apple. “I joined Apple 40 years ago on the day of the company’s IPO, December 12, 1980. As I signed my employment agreement in Geneva I was elated, ready, and relieved.”…

Apple has announced an event for November 10th, 2020 to be broadcast from Apple Park. Although not officially released as part of the announcement on their website, this is the event which is widely expected to be their Silicon based machine introduction. Several publications including Bloomberg and others are running with the idea that Apple will introduce the A14 Silicon based Laptops at this event. First announced at the 2020 rendition of the Apple World Wide Developers Conference, the A14…

Steven Paul Jobs, Co-Founder and visionary of Apple would have been 64 years old today. Jobs, along with Steve Wozniak, creator of the Apple-1 and Apple II computers, and Ron Wayne, the oft maligned and forgotten third partner started the company that most of us have come to know and whose products we all now use on a daily basis. While much has been written about Steve over the years both in the positive and the negative, yours truly has…

The Great Oz Retro-Fest, (GORF) is a multi-day event celebrating the personal computing platforms of the 1970s, 80s and 90s including the Apple, Microbee, Commodore, Atari, Sinclair and other 8- and 16-bit computer lines. GORF is being produced by Teaching Electronics and Computing History (TECH) Inc. which is an Australian not-for-profit association. GORF is happening from April 24th-28th 2019 at Urban Camp in Melbourne, Australia. Similar to KansasFest there is bunk-style accommodation provided on-site and participants are encouraged to live-in for the…

UPDATE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, I unfortunately have to postpone WOzFest 12:00 – the new date is Saturday 25 May 2019, all other details remain the same. Steve in Brisbane has decided to also postpone QFest 12 to the same date. From the europlus zone blog: From our Northern Apple ][ Compadres comes the following announcement: I am very happy to announce QFest 12, to be held in Brisbane on Saturday 27 April 2019, concurrent with WOzFest 12:00 and GORF, starting around midday Brisbane time (UTC+10:00). As with previous QFests, there…

For a spell, the Steve Jobs Archive was the one go-to place on the web to get a good synopsis of the videos of Steve and the associated grouping.   The site contains 43 categories of Steve Jobs’ life and the videos which contain that aspect.   After the disappearance of the site, A.P.P.L.E. inquired and apparently the interest in Steve Jobs had waned to a point where the curator, Art Matsak, felt that it was no longer needed. However, Since said…

The 2018/04 RetroChallenge is now taking entries for their event.   RetroChallenge is an bi-annual event sponsored by John W. Linville in an effort to further the retro computing hobby.   Entry rules pretty much sum up the feeling of the event: it is a bit like the opposite of Global Thermonuclear War — the only way to lose is not to play… The contest allows entries which are for any computer system which is older than 10 years and in the…

A new film called “Steve Jobs’ Choices” is on IndieGoGo, produced by 8-Bit Generation who also produced “The Commodore Wars.”  The documentary looks intriguing from the posted trailer.  They have assembled some impressive interviews with people like John Sculley, Mike Markkula, Steve Wozniak, Andy Hertzfeld, Al Alcorn, Dan Kottke, Larry Tesler, Jay Elliot, Paul Terrel, Chuck Peddle, Alvy Ray Smith, Steven Levy, Alan Cooper, Stan Veit, Michael Swaine, and Paul Freiberg. About a month remains to complete their funding goal…