Bill Martens began programming in 1976 and learned much of his programming from the articles in the early magazines such as Creative Computing and Byte Magazine. Much of his time on computers was spent in the computer room at Ansbach American and Nuremberg American high schools in West Germany on a DEC PDP 11/40.
In 1980 he returned to the US and after returning to his home in Maple Valley, Washington, began working for A.P.P.L.E. while still a senior in High School.
Bill worked for A.P.P.L.E. from August 1981 to June 1982 assisting office staff and programmers. Among his tasks there was to input and manage the member survey data from 1981.
In December 1981 he was assigned the project which eventually became known as P81, the Pascal Anthology Disk, completing it in March or April of 1982. This disk continued to be listed in the A.P.P.L.E. library as late at 1988.
In 1989, Bill moved to Japan where he resides today. He was an office infrastructure specialist performing project planning for major financial firms in Tokyo until 2001 when he retired.
He now works exclusively on Apple and Macintosh related projects including the revitalization of A.P.P.L.E. and Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine production tasks as well as the Apple ][ related websites, Beagle Bros Software Repository, Virtual Apple ][ and the Australian Apple Review.
