Tag: steve wozniak
Seattle, Washington – March 26, 2025 – Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange (A.P.P.L.E.) has published a new 2nd Edition of The WOZPAK II, intended for collectors who want to own this early work. It is a reprint with an additional introduction by A.P.P.L.E. founder Val J. Golding, and a new back cover. It contains over 130 pages of Apple documentation with many examples and explanations. A disk image with the Apple II programs is available. First published in 1979, The WOZPAK II was an…
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…
R&R Auctions has announced the release of a pre-production Apple II Motherboard (REV1) for auction on their site as part of their “Steve Jobs and the Apple Computer Revolution” auctions lot. The Motherboard auction started at $500 but is expected to draw bids of over $5,000. It is currently unknown what the actual source of the board is, however, internal speculation is that this is one of the rate Apple II boards which were part of the famed Tony Diaz…
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…
Several people lately have been looking at the replica realm with great interest and I found myself looking back through the files at what people had done already. One of the mainstays in the Apple II replica real was Mike Willegal, the former curator of the the Apple-1 Registry. One of the wonderful pages he had done was the “Information on Building your own Rev 0 Replica”, a page dedicated to the idea that the first Apple II available on…
A new film about Apple co-founder Ron Wayne has been released. The film by Paul Johnson films, is appropriately entitled “Co-Founder“. The film covers the entry and exit of Ron Wayne with commentary from Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne himself. According to the blurb, “Ever had regrets about a business opportunity you took a pass on? In the 70’s Ronald Wayne and two young computer enthusiasts in Silicon Valley and formed a company. The two men were Steve Jobs and…
Programmer, Alexander Akhmetov, has released a new MOS 6502 Apple-1 Emulator. The new emulator was developed to run on both Linux and Mac OS X. One of the main features of this new emulator include the ability to use either the Apple1Basic Rom or the Replica-1 Rom. You can download the Akhmetov MOS 6502 Apple-1 Emulator from Alexander’s Github page at: https://github.com/alexander-akhmetov/apple1/releases
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…
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…
Tickets went on sale for the Comicon dinner event with Steve Wozniak this week. The event scheduled as part of the Tokyo version of ComiCon is set for 4 December 2017 and is being held at The Prince Park Tower Convention Center in Tokyo. While most of the tickets for the event are much more reasonable (in the $100-200 range), the tickets for the 300 person limited event for Steve Woznaik are selling for a whopping $715 (¥80,000 JPY) showing…
The WOZPAK Special Edition, first released in 2013 in Softcover and Hardcover, has been upgraded with a forward by Don Williams and some additional information on the back cover. For those who purchased the original edition of the book, we’ve made Don Williams forward available as a high-quality PDF that can be printed and inserted in the book. The press release follows: Originally produced in 1978 by Val Golding and Dick Hubert of A.P.P.L.E., The WOZPAK was the first official…
This month on Open Apple we sit down with David Schroeder, author of classic Apple II games such as Crisis Mountain, Dino Eggs, and Short Circuit. We talk about the randomness of our passionate brand-loyalty, the logistical realities of early Apple II development, and the magical era of “one-person, one-game”. We get into a lot of the technical details of Crisis Mountain and Dino Eggs, so you might pick up some tips for your own Apple II projects! David also has great memories of…
A.P.P.L.E. is announcing a reduction of the price of The WOZPAK Special Edition just in time for Black Friday. The WOZPAK Special Edition is a complete restoration of the original WOZPAK from A.P.P.L.E. and has additional material not included in the original WOZPAK. The price reduction applies to both the Softcover and the Hardcover version of The WOZPAK Special Edition. The Softcover edition is reduced 25% and is now available for $37.46 with the Hardcover edition going for $53.95. The reduction in price will last…
The new Steve Jobs movie opens today in a number of theaters today across the US. The Aaron Sorkin directed biopic has come under fire somewhat over the past several days as people began to see the previews. Now, with the release of the movie comes new full-length two-minute clip that highlights a confrontation between Wozniak and Jobs.
Another Apple-1 computer is being auctioned by Bonhams Auction House. The Apple-1 owned by one Tom Romkey, a personal computer store owner in Florida, has owned the computer for the past 39 years. The board, having sat on a shelf for the majority of that time, is in pristine condition and is expected to draw 300,000 to 500,000 USD at the auction. The Apple-1’s were built by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in the garage of Steve Jobs home in…
In 1975, Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop, famously bought 50 Apple-1’s from Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Of course, they had to build them first and with no money, Steve Jobs convinced companies to provide parts based on a 30 days payment plan using the promissory note from Paul Terrell. Most folks look at that event as the real event that started Apple. However, it was Paul who convinced the Apple guys to make the computer a real…
A.P.P.L.E. is proud to announce a reduction of the price of The WOZPAK Special Edition just in time for Kansasfest 2015. The WOZPAK Special Edition is a complete restoration of the original WOZPAK from A.P.P.L.E. and has additional material not included in the original WOZPAK. The WOZPAK Special Edition is available in Softcover and Hardcover through the Lulu bookstore.
The Wozpak Special Edition is now priced for the Christmas Holidays. The 350 page book with the notes from Steve Wozniaks’s Apple-1 and Apple II notes was produced in coordination with Steve Woznaik by Brian Wiser and Bill Martens. It includes a number of interesting items and introductions from the men who made the Apple II computer what it became. It is normally available for the list price of $49.95, but during the holidays, it is 20% off at just…
A working Apple-1 computer recently listed by Bonhams Auction House has sold for a world record 905,000 USD. This particular Apple-1, originally sold by the Byte Shop in Mountain View, Ca., was one of 50 hand built by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in the famed Apple garage, is one of only 15 known to actually function. This Apple-1 will reside at it’s new home, The Henry Ford Museum. For more on the Bonham’s auction, check out the auction website…
Auction House Bonhams has another Apple-1 in its possession which will be auctioned off on October 22nd. While there are approximately 60 of the Steve Wozniak created Apple-1 motherboards, only about a dozen or so have been shown to work. Previous auctions of similarly functioning machines have fetched anywhere between 385,000 and 650,000 USD. The Apple-1 belonged to John Anderson who was the Founder of the Cincinnati AppleSiders User Group who kept the machine enclosed in a glass case for…
