This month in Open Apple, Mike and Ken chat with Apple II historian Steve Weyhrich about strategies and philosophies for scanning, preserving, and publishing the story of the Apple II. Hardware hacks for the Apple IIc and expansion cards making their KansasFest debut caught our attention this month, as did the American Humanist Association recognizing Steve Wozniak, who earned a musical tribute from Jonathan Mann. Watches, shirts, boxes, and Risk topped our eBay auctions, while games ran the gamut from text adventures to Xbox spiritual successors to IIGS classics, with a few decorative posters thrown in for good measure. In addition to Dr. Steve, former KansasFest logo designer Chris Lackey makes not one but TWO guest appearances this month!



Congratulations to Jeremy Rand, who correctly named the game as Out of this World! He wins a $25 discount off KansasFest 2011 registration or a free KansasFest shirt. Next month’s winner will earn a 20% or $50 discount off one ReactiveMicro.com order.



Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode.



Introduction (0:00 – 23:21)







Taking the Apple II online with UthernetKen’s blog post about Jeri EllsworthTriangulation podcast interview with Jeri Ellsworth6502 LaneTransmit FTP client for Mac OS X
Navicat MySQL tool
Graduate school presentation about the Apple IIEchoes of KFestSteve Weyhrich’s Apple II HistorySteve Weyhrich’s Apple II History, circa 1991
Copy protection for Apple II cassettesMinecraft Apple IIApple II ScansA scanned Blue BookVisioneer Mobility scannerEye-Fi memory cardVisioneer Mobility + Eye-Fi bundle at Newegg.com



II News (23:22 – 52:02)



Apple IIc mass storage Smartport hackApple II Weather DisplayRich Dreher’s CFFA3000Vince Briel’s A2MP3 card at KansasFestJonathan Mann’s “That’s Just the Woz” songSong-A-Day: The Album by Jonathan Mann — KickstarterSteve Weyhrich’s audio parodyRetroMacCast #200David Greelish’s Retro Computing RoundtableCarrington Vanston’s 1 MHzVintage Computer Festival East 7.0What’s an “Atari 64”?BYTE.comiWoz, by Gina Smith
Cold Spring DesignSteve Wozniak wins the American Humanist Association’s Isaac Asimov award2011 Humanist Awards Banquet videoThe true origin of the Apple logoElectronic Frontier FoundationSteve Wozniak on Big Bang TheorySyndicomm’s DVD of Steve Wozniak’s KansasFest 2003 keynote



Apple Pickings (52:03 – 1:01:20)



Vintage Computer Museum collectionEnglebart mouseApple boxesLetting the Boxes Go: A Tale of Sadness, by Blake Patterson
Bell & Howell Apple II Plus (Darth Vader)Apple Computer watch, 18k platedTimex watch, boxedJuiced.GS Volume 9, Issue 2Risk (relisted)Another RiskRisk Factions for Xbox LiveCommandant SixFourIIGS PRAM batteryReactiveMicro’s IIGS PRAM batteryROM 01 battery packRadio Shack PRAM battery



Name the Game (1:01:21 – 1:19:53)




Out of this World coming to iOSOutland for Xbox LivePortal: The Flash VersionWolfenstein 3D turns 19 (and acknowledging its roots)Catacombs 3-DCreating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 (and Jason McIntosh’s review)Usenet group rec.arts.int-fictionTrizbort, the Interactive Fiction MapperRetro videogame propaganda postersPanic’s lost 1982 artwork. Found.OverClocked Remix fundraiserThe post Show #4 (May 2011): Steve Weyhrich, archiving history, humanism, and Outland first appeared on Open Apple.

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