Apple Lisa at CHI 98
This is a very interesting new article by Marcin Wichary at the GUIdebook website, detailing one of the sessions of the CHI 98 conference - a panel called “Honoring our elders II”, dedicated to Xerox Star and Apple Lisa! It took place on April 22nd, 1998.
Included is a full a transcript of the second part of the panel, with Frank Ludolph and Rod Perkins presenting the Apple Lisa computer.

Apple Lisa at CHI 98

Apple Assembly Line Archive
Bob Sander-Cederlof, publisher of the Apple Assembly Line newsletter, has posted the complete text of all the issues online. He begins his introduction:
"From October 1980 through June 1988 I published a newsletter called Apple Assembly Line. This newsletter focussed on assembly language for the Apple ][, //e, //c, and //gs computers. In the beginning all the programs were written for the 6502 microprocessor, but as the Apple II family developed, this expanded to the 65C02, 65802, and 65816. All the programs were published using the S-C Macro Assembler, which I also authored and sold under the label of S-C Software Corporation."

Apple Assembly Line Archive

A2 News and Notes
The April, 2005 issue of the A2 News and Notes Newsletter for Apple II fans has been posted by Howard Katz!
This issue:
* 3rd Down, Fourth To GO
* Homes For Orphans
* Programming notes
* Summer Camp News
* 8-Bit Development
* Software News
* SignOff

A2 News and Notes

Steve Wozniak: The Birth of the Apple Computer
This 1996 email response by The Woz covers early programming on the Apple and how he hand-wrote the ROM code. Another little bit of Apple History!

Steve Wozniak: The Birth of the Apple Computer

Personal Robots
This article by Gordon McComb at Atarimagazines.com originally appeared in Creative Computing, Vol. 9, No. 11 / November 1983 / Page 196. The future of personal robots is examined, including Topo, who "comes with a TopoForth disk that runs on an Apple II/IIe."

Personal Robots

Word Perfect for the Apple IIe, IIc,and IIgs
This is the official release page at apple2.org.za for Word Perfect for the Apple IIe, IIc,and IIgs as public domain software! Includes a review, and downloads.

Word Perfect for the Apple IIe, IIc,and IIgs

Nybbles
Another tale by Andy Hertzfeld at Folklore.org. This time, the story of his first job on the Macintosh project.
It begins:
"My very first job on the Mac project was to help Burrell Smith and Brian Howard verify that the disk controller was working properly. They had just wired up a Woz-style disk controller to the Macintosh prototype, but they had no way to test if it was working properly without writing a fairly complicated program."

Nybbles

Implementing VisiCalc
Bob Frankston, co-author of VisiCalc for the Apple II recalls the development process.

From the page:
"This is my long-delayed attempt at writing about my experience in writing VisiCalc and the many design decisions that we made along the way. But even after nearly a quarter century I remember many of the details though maybe my memories have evolved. The process of writing down this experience is already evoking many memories and, unless proven otherwise, I'll assume that they are memories of real events but others may view it differently and I will try to correct the more creative aspects of my memory."

Implementing VisiCalc

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member
A fascinating recollection of the famous Homebrew Computer Club by one of its members, Bob Lash.
It Begins:
"My first exposure to computers was at age 6 (1963), as a subject in Dr. Patrick Suppes' accelerated mathematics experiment at Stanford. I was taken to a small room with what I now know was a CRT display and an intercom. I was asked to push some keys in response to some shapes on the screen. Afterwards, they showed me around a large room filled with big cabinets, some with lots of blinking white lights."

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member

Busy Being Born
A visual history of the development of the Lisa/Macintosh user interface at Folklore.org. It Begins:
"The Macintosh User Interface wasn't designed all at once; it was actually the result of almost five years of experimentation and development at Apple, starting with graphics routines that Bill Atkinson began writing for Lisa in late 1978. Like any evolutionary process, there were lots of false starts and blind alleys along the way. It's a shame that these tend to be lost to history, since there is a lot that we can learn from them."

Busy Being Born