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.

Introduction (0:00 – 11:07)

• November, by Thomas Hood
• Apple2Pi by David Schmenk
• A2CLOUD & A2SERVER, by Ivan Drucker
• BrickPi combines Raspberry Pi with Lego Mindstorm

User Login (11:08 – 39:37)

• Bill Martens of Call-A.P.P.L.E.
• The history of A.P.P.L.E., founded by Val Golding

II News (39:38 – 1:25:36)

• 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