Following in the footsteps of his Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who delivered the 2005 Commencement Address to Stanford, Steve Wozniak has been named the keynote speaker for UC Berkeley’s 2013 Commencement program.  Commencement activities are scheduled to begin promptly at 9am on Saturday, May 18, “rain or shine”.  The Daily Californian has the full text of the press release.

In 1984, Woz visited the East Ohio Apple Corps to introduce the new Macintosh and discuss plenty of other Apple related topics.  The video doesn’t include the actual Macintosh intro, but Woz gives a detailed history of the early days of Apple including Mike Marrkula and Ron Wayne, the development of the Disk II drive, his pranks with the other Steve, visiting early computer shows, and much, much more.  Apparently, even in 1984, an Apple-1 was fetching upwards of $15,000.

A digitized copy of the nearly two-hour talk has been posted to Vimeo. (HT: The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)

Andy Kessler of Tech Ticker recently recorded a video interview with Steve Wozniak about the early days of personal computing:

We were gonna have machines that could out-calculate our companies’ huge million-dollar computers, and we the programmers … were gonna change the world with revolutionized education. We always spoke of the word “revolution” — all these big social changes we were going to bring … I wanted to help it happen. What I had to offer was my technical talents. I could build machines for these other people who wanted to use machines to better humanity … I thought, why don’t I design a computer from the ground up [with] every optimization where you save parts and you make things work, do more jobs than they did, work faster… and I added my color idea. The Apple II was this hot design that I came up with.

The full interview is embedded below.