Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange

Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange Users Group

Established	February 1978
Founder	Val J. Golding Val Golding Val J. Golding founded Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange in February 1978 with fellow Apple II enthusiasts Mike Thyng and Bob Huelsdonk at the behest of Max Cook, the local ComputerLand store manager. The first meeting of the group had 15 people at it and within a year, the group had...
Members	8,900
Current President	Mike Pfaiffer

A.P.P.L.E., also known as Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange was initially established in 1978 by Val J. Golding

Val Golding

Val J. Golding founded Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange in February 1978 with fellow Apple II enthusiasts Mike Thyng and Bob Huelsdonk at the behest of Max Cook, the local ComputerLand store manager. The first meeting of the group had 15 people at it and within a year, the group had...

. The group provided software, hardware and support services for the Apple

Apple Computer

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

world until 1990. Val Golding

Val Golding

left the group in 1984 and the group became a Co-Operative in 1985. From 1990 to 2001, the group existed as a user's group only providing support to local northwest

Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest is a region in northwestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Definitions of the region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common concept of the...

computer users. In 2001, Bill Martens

William Martens

William Martens is a computer engineer and magazine editor. He is primarily a programmer who dabbles in the hardware realm and enjoys writing science fiction in addition to writing articles for the magazine Call-A.P.P.L.E., including the long surviving "Bytes from the A.P.P.L.E." a product...

began to look into the possibility of preserving the information associated with the company and in contacting many of the former writers, board members and staff, found that there was an interest in preserving and rebuilding the company. Thus in February 2002, this effort began in earnest with the production of Call-A.P.P.L.E.

Call-A.P.P.L.E.

Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine is the monthly journal publication of the Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange . The magazine was published from 1978 until 1990 when it was discontinued; after a 12 year lapse publication was restarted in 2002...

Magazine being restored once again.

A.P.P.L.E. Today

While much of the current group is still based in the Seattle area, production is now handled in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

and Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. A.P.P.L.E. is an all volunteer Apple

Apple Computer

/ Macintosh users group. None of the members of the board or of the staff are paid and are dedicating their time to this project for the love of the computer world.

The purpose of the group is to provide information, software, hardware, documentation, and support to all levels of users regardless of the Apple computer that they are using. For those members who wish to support our efforts can check the section below on volunteering. We always encourage the enhancement of the "user helping user" concept and continue to believe that this is the best way for those who need help to gain the assistance they need.

The A.P.P.L.E. is one of the oldest official Apple

Apple Computer

Users Groups in existence and specializes in providing users usable freeware and shareware. They also publish the magazine, Call-A.P.P.L.E.

Call-A.P.P.L.E.

on a monthly basis in addition to online libraries.

A.P.P.L.E. Books

A.P.P.L.E. has published numerous books over the years, most related to modifying or programming the Apple II and Apple /// Series computers. The first book published by the group was the personal notes of Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak

Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an American computer engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer, Co. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne...

and Randy Wigginton

Randy Wigginton

Randy Wigginton was one of Apple Computer's first employees , creator of MacWrite, Full Impact, and numerous other Mac applications. He used to work in development at eBay, Quigo, Inc and Move.com. In Nov 2010 he left his position as a "Site Reliability Engineer" at Google Inc., purportedly after...

. The 300 plus pages were photocopied and the "Wozpak" was produced complete with program tape. The book was later typeset and reproduced as the "Wozpak][" with floppy disk.

Other books included the famous "Call-A.P.P.L.E. In Depth" series and the "Call-A.P.P.L.E. Compendium" series which were primarily related to the source code listings from the magazines. Most of these books included floppies classified an the Anthology series. The Antholody disks were mostly Applesoft and Integer basic programs from the monthly issues of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine. The 1981 Pascal anthology was produced by current A.P.P.L.E. president Bill Martens

William Martens

. Most of these books and software are still available today in CD or DVD format.

A.P.P.L.E. Magazines

A.P.P.L.E. has produced 19 volumes of Call-A.P.P.L.E.
Call-A.P.P.L.E.
Call-A.P.P.L.E. Magazine is the monthly journal publication of the Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange . The magazine was published from 1978 until 1990 when it was discontinued; after a 12 year lapse publication was restarted in 2002...

magazine from 1978 to 1990 and 2002 to 2007. The magazine is produced on a monthly basis and contains information about all aspects of Apple

Apple Computer

computers all the way from the Apple-1

Apple I

The original Apple Computer, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976. They were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer...

to the latest Macintosh computers with Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

.

A.P.P.L.E. has also produced other publications over the years including /// Cheers! (1984–1985), 32 Little Apples (1984–1986), Mac A.P.P.L.E. (1986–1988), Mac Horizons (1988–1989), The APDA Log (1984–1989), The Mac Tech Quarterly (1989–1990) and the Co-Op Spirit (1991–1994).

A.P.P.L.E. Presidents

Founder -- Val J. Golding

Val Golding

,
1978-1994—Richard J. Hubert
1994-2001—Norman Dodge
2001-2006 -- Bill Martens

William Martens

2006-2006—Mike Pfaiffer
2007-2008 -- Bill Martens

William Martens

2008–Present Mike Pfaiffer

A.P.P.L.E. Operated Websites

http://www.callapple.org
http://beagle.applearchives.com
http://take1.applearchives.com
http://wac.callapple.org
http://apple2.callapple.org

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