This month on Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Mike Willegal, Apple-1 and Apple II reproduction expert extraordinaire. His topic is hot this month: five Apple-1 computers were simultaneously on display at the History San Jose museum; one is being auctioned online; Willegal was interviewed for a Kickstarter-funded book about the Apple-1; and his clones are appearing in a feature-length film about Steve Jobs — what a guy! He even went to Vintage Computer Festival Southeast this spring, though he’ll be absent from VCF Southwest, KansasFest, and Oz KFest, all occurring this summer. We watch the trailer for the Jobs movie and find we all have different reasons to see (or skip) Ashton Kutcher in the title role. We may or may not have dressed up to see the recent Star Trek and Man of Steel films; maybe we’ll fit the part by wearing some Apple t-shirts from 1986 to see Jobs.

Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.

Introduction (0:20 – 7:10)

User Login (7:11 – 31:51)

• Mike Willegal’s homepage
• Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) East 7.0
• VCF Southeast 1.0
• Apple II Rev 0 motherboard clone
• Apple-1 Mimeo Project
• Apple-1 Registry
• Computerworld: Apple-1 goes for $213K in Christie’s auction
• Vince Briel’s Replica 1
• Mike Willegal’s SCELBI reproduction

II News (31:52 – 1:44:47)

• Melissa Barron on the Open Apple podcast
• Melissa’s glitch art to appear at the Furtherfield Gallery in London
• KansasFest
• The 30th anniversary of WarGames
• Oz KFest
• Mt. Keira Fest
• Google Fiber arrives in Kansas City
• Tokyo Video Chat at KansasFest 2012
• Rockhurst recognized in the Computerworld Honors Program
• VCF Southwest
• Apple pop-up museum
• Classic Computing list
• Robert J. Luther’s The First Apple on Kickstarter
• Robert J. Luther on Bloomberg News
• Jason Scott feels “there’s no book there”
• What’s Where in the Apple on Kickstarter
• Five Apple-1 computers at History San Jose
• Conway’s Game of Life for Apple II
• Conway for iOS
• Apple-1 auction expected to go for $500,000
• Original Apple II #47 sels for $23,099 on eBay
• The geeks who saved Prince of Persia’s source code from digital death
• Prince of Persia source code from Jordan Mechner, Adam Green, and Fabien Sanglard
• Electronic Arts is America’s worst company
• Apple II developer of Madden sues Electronic Arts
• Apple’s clothing collection from 1986
• Apple T-Shirts: A Yearbook of History at Apple Computer
• Appledesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group
• Dave Finnigan’s The New Apple II User’s Guide
• Jason Scott’s upgrade guarantee
• Juiced.GS Concentrate
• Doug Cuff with Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day
• Steve Jobs: “All my work will be obsolete by 2005”
• Mom’s first iPad: An unexpected reception
• Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher releases August 16
• Official movie trailer for Jobs
• Matthew Modine
• Rhode Island Apple Group Floppy Disk Crate 001, courtesy Jason Scott
• Oregon Trail on eBay
• Darth Vader Bell & Howell Apple II with A/V backpack