Show #4 (May 2011): Steve Weyhrich, archiving history, humanism, and Outland




Open Apple show

Summary: 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 Uthernet Ken's blog post about Jeri Ellsworth Triangulation podcast interview with Jeri Ellsworth 6502 Lane Transmit FTP client for Mac OS X Navicat MySQL tool Graduate school presentation about the Apple II Echoes of KFest Steve Weyhrich's Apple II History Steve Weyhrich's Apple II History, circa 1991 Copy protection for Apple II cassettes Minecraft Apple II Apple II Scans A scanned Blue Book Visioneer Mobility scanner Eye-Fi memory card Visioneer Mobility + Eye-Fi bundle at Newegg.com II News (23:22 – 52:02) Apple IIc mass storage Smartport hack Apple II Weather Display Rich Dreher's CFFA3000 Vince Briel's A2MP3 card at KansasFest Jonathan Mann's "That's Just the Woz" song Song-A-Day: The Album by Jonathan Mann — Kickstarter Steve Weyhrich's audio parody RetroMacCast #200 David Greelish's Retro Computing Roundtable Carrington Vanston's 1 MHz Vintage Computer Festival East 7.0 What's an "Atari 64"? BYTE.com iWoz, by Gina Smith Cold Spring Design Steve Wozniak wins the American Humanist Association's Isaac Asimov award 2011 Humanist Awards Banquet video The true origin of the Apple logo Electronic Frontier Foundation Steve Wozniak on Big Bang Theory Syndicomm's DVD of Steve Wozniak's KansasFest 2003 keynote Apple Pickings (52:03 – 1:01:20) Vintage Computer Museum collection Englebart mouse Apple boxes Letting the Boxes Go: A Tale of Sadness, by Blake Patterson Bell & Howell Apple II Plus (Darth Vader) Apple Computer watch, 18k plated Timex watch, boxed Juiced.GS Volume 9, Issue 2 Risk (relisted) Another Risk Risk Factions for Xbox Live Commandant SixFour IIGS PRAM battery ReactiveMicro's IIGS PRAM battery ROM 01 battery pack Radio Shack PRAM battery Name the Game (1:01:21 – 1:19:53) Out of this World coming to iOS Outland for Xbox Live Portal: The Flash Version Wolfenstein 3D turns 19 (and acknowledging its roots) Catacombs 3-D Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 (and Jason McIntosh's review) Usenet group rec.arts.int-fiction Trizbort, the Interactive Fiction Mapper Retro videogame propaganda posters Panic's lost 1982 artwork. Found. OverClocked Remix fundraiser