Open Apple #11 (Jan 2012): David Greelish, Steve Weyhrich, John Sculley, and Steve Jobs

This month on the Open Apple podcast, Mike and Ken chat with David Greelish, co-host of the Retro Computing Roundtable podcast and recently published author of the book The Complete Historically Brewed. In the news is the Retrochallenge Winter Warm-up, which we each want to enter but just can’t find the time for. Larry Marcus has an office full of dead technology we both admire and question, and we offer a similar reaction to a questionable statue made in tribute to Steve Jobs, whereas Ron Wayne we admire and pity. An Apple-1 didn’t sell on eBay, but the Leather Goddesses of Infocom did, with Mike blogging about this and other Infocom games. But the highlight this month is David discussing with noted Apple II historian Steve Weyhrich the role of former CEO John Sculley at Apple Computer Inc. and in the fate of the Apple II — a topic about which David recently interviewed Sculley himself! We recommend you listen to that episode of the Classic Computing podcast first, though it’s not mandatory. Click past the jump for links mentioned in this episode. Introduction (0:00 – 10:01) * Open Apple‘s end-of-year roundtable User login (10:02 – 22:08) * Retro Computing Roundtable* Steven Levy’s Hackers* David Greelish’s The Complete Historically Brewed book* Historically Brewed‘s Kickstarter campaign* Nelson DeWitt’s A Kickstarter’s Guide To Kickstarter* Stan Veit’s History of the Personal Computer II News (22:09 – 54:33) * The Complete Historically Brewed on Amazon* MiD DAY’s interview with Steve W...