“A.P.P.L.E. Co-op Celebrates A Decade of Service”.Call-A.P.P.L.E., Feb 1988.
Interesting article that discusses the early days and development of a major Apple II user group and magazine.
Chien, Philip. “The First Ten Years: A Look Back”.The Apple II Review, Fall/Winter 1986.
Historical overview of Apple Computer.
Connick, Jack. “In The Beginning There Were User Groups”.Call-A.P.P.L.E., Sep 1986.
Connick, Jack. “…And Then There Was Apple”.Call-A.P.P.L.E., Oct 1986.
Transcript (in two parts) of a talk given by Steve Wozniak to the Apple World meeting in San Francisco, January 1986.
Creative Computing, Nov 1984.
The entire issue had articles that dealt with the first ten year of personal computing, including a little from before the release of theAltair 8800.
Cringely, Robert X.Accidental Empires. (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1992).
Historical information that deals more with the non-Apple computer world, but does have information aboutVisiCalc .
Duprau, Jeanne, and Tyson, Molly. “The Making Of The Apple IIGS“.A+ Magazine, Nov 1986.
Info about the development of this computer.
Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine.Fire In The Valley. (Osborne/McGraw-Hill: Berkley 1984).
This book deals with the beginnings of the entire microcomputer industry, but has a chapter that deals with the formation of Apple Computer and its subsequent development.
Hogan, Thom. “Apple: The First Ten Years”.A+ Magazine, Jan 1987.
Hogan, Thom. “Back In Time”.A+ Magazine, Feb 1987.
Historical overview.
Levy, Steven.Hackers: Heroes Of The Computer Revolution. (New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1984).
History of modern computing, from the PDP-1 at MITS in the 1960’s to the software wizards of the early 1980’s.
Moritz, Michael.The Little Kingdom. (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1984).
History of Apple Computer and its founders, up to the early 1980’s.
Pinella, Paul. “In The Beginning: An Interview With Harvey Lehtman”.Apple IIGS: Graphics And Sound, Fall/Winter 1986.
IIGS product development.
Rose, Frank.West Of Eden: The End Of Innocence At Apple Computer. (New York: Penguin Books, 1989).
Review of Apple Computer history, with extensive behind-the-scenes information of Apple’s turbulent middle years in the 1980’s while the Macintosh was under development, up to the ouster of Steve Jobs.
Rubin, Charles. “The Life & Death & Life Of The Apple II”.Personal Computing, Feb 1985.
A review of some reasons why the Apple II doesn’t seem to die.
Smarte, Gene, and Reinhardt, Andrew. “15 Years Of Bits, Bytes, And Other Great Moments”.Byte, Sep 1990.
Timeline overview of 1975-1990 in computing history.
The Apple II Guide. Apple USA Product Marketing, 1990.
The Apple II Guide. Apple USA Product Marketing, 1992.
Timeline history of Apple Computer, plus overview information about the Apple II to get anyone started.
Williams, Gregg. “‘C’ Is For Crunch”.Byte, Dec 1984.
Development of the Apple IIc.
Williams, Gregg, and Moore, Rob. “The Apple Story, Part 1: Early History”.Byte, Dec 1984.
Williams, Gregg, and Moore, Rob. “The Apple Story, Part 2: More History And The Apple III”.Byte, Jan 1985.
Interview with Steve Wozniak.
Worth, Don, and Lechner, Pieter.Beneath Apple DOS. Reseda, CA: Quality Software, 1981.
Has a description of the history of DOS, as well as a technical description of it.