Ronald G. Wayne helped Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computer, Inc., then left shortly thereafter. Why would he do that and what has he done since then? Who better to answer these questions than the man himself, and he does so in his autobiography, Adventures of an Apple Founder. The book is available now at Aamzon, Barnes & Noble, and iBooks.

OS X, derived from Apple’s purchase of the NeXTSTEP OS developed by Steve Jobs’s startup company NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) that Jobs founded in 1985 after his forced resignation from Apple by his hand-picked CEO John Scully that year, now powers all Mac computers, and is also the foundation of the iOS used in the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Let’s see…150 MacBook Airs or 1 Apple-1? An original Apple-1, including the original packaging and a letter signed by Steve Jobs, will be auctioned off at Christie’s of London on November 23rd. Originally sold for $666.66 (did you have to include your soul with that sale?), the computer is expected to auction for around $150,000 to $250,000.

Welcome to Macintosh is the definitive Apple documentary. It covers the history of Apple: its people, products and community. It’s the kind of documentary you actually want to see, not the kind you dreaded in high school. It has real production value and is on a topic you obviously have an interest in and care about. If you could use a lesson on Apple history, then you owe it to yourself to pick up Welcome to Macintosh.

MacUser is still going strong in the U.K., but there was a time when it was also a print magazine in the U.S., and TUAW helpfully points us towards a copy from 1996. Thirteen years is a geological age by Internet standards, of course, and it’s a fascinating read to see what the Next Big Thing used to be, the applications we couldn’t live without, and here’s a document of that long ago era… the 90s.