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In fact, if there's something you would be interested in, please drop me a note or give me a call. Paul Campbell is even promising to bring a system with him from Detroit to show us all the s for new disks and, of course, always thrilled to accept contributions for disks. ANNIES CRAFT Our friend in Japan, Koji Annoura, was true to his word and has sent us a copy of his "Annie's Letter" newsletter. As I wrote last month, Koji presides oto turn them back into "Positives" if you desire. I've really been able to use the GS to help enhance my ability to produce /// public domain disks for you in the past few months. I hope you are enjoying them. As always, I am very open to suggestionaper. The new disks we offer for the PD this month were all saved by the QUICKIE software in this inverse or "negative" mode before being converted to a FOTOfile by Graphics Manager. You can use Graphics Manager, Draw On Three or other graphics program up the picture to make it more presentable) and then save it to disk. The SCR.PRT.INV invokable I mentioned above will print any Apple /// FOTOfile. But I discovered that the FOTOfile must be in INVERSE mode to print a proper "Positive" picture on phe file type. Double HiRes is a binary file and thus must be converted for use on the ///. The best way to do that is using On Three's Graphics Manager to load the binary file into memory. I then do a little cleaning up where necessary (that is, I cleanas meant using my QUICKIE hand scanner and //GS to scan pictures that can then be saved in an Apple // Double HiRes format. As I've mentioned before, Double HiRes is a 33 block file that is equal to the ///'s FOTOfile format. The only difference is tally found a Business Basic Invokable module that will allow the printing of graphics from our Menu.Maker program. But I wanted to discuss a little bit here about the process I use to port graphics over to the /// for use on our disks. Lately, that hICS In case you didn't know by now, Apple /// graphics are one of my favorite subjects. With this months contributions, our PD library now has some 36 disks of programs, utitilies and FOTOfiles. As mentioned in the accompanying PD article, I've fin. Their number is 1-619-721-7733. Address is 602 Garrison St., Oceanside, CA. 92054. By the way, should you ever need a replacement 6502 chip, please give me a call. I have a number of them and they are yours for the asking. GRAPHICS GRAPHICS GRAPH operate your /// and Titan cards in an enhanced //e mode. The 65c02 chip will not effect your /// in native mode at all. In fact, it runs cooler so it actually is a bit of a help. One vendor, Alltech Electronics, offers 65c02 chips for just $9.00 each be getting both the //+ and the //e versions. I can only allow one more card on my main system, but I'll use the //e cards in another for Pubish It!, ect. Remember that you'll have to replace the 6502 CPU chip in your /// with a 65c02 if you want to/ SIG TCS board: About the Titan cards......YAAAHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I have been waiting and watching. This is really a break for a lot of folks who will be able to use the wonderful SOS of SARA, and yet run all those great Apple ][ programs too. I'llnce to get either product since they are being made to order from available stock. Call Titan Support at 1-313-429-8547 to order and be sure to mention your /// SIG. Paul Campbell was especially excited about the sale, when it was announced on our //wonderful things he's been up to of late. ANOTHER REMINDER That the Titan sale continues this month. Thanks to a special deal, Titan ///+//e cards are now just $199.00 and the original Titan ///+// card only $99.00. This may well be your last chaver a group that supports Apple //, /// and Lisa computers. The newsletter is in both english and japanese. In fact, it's rather interesting to be looking through the Japanese articles and see "Mac"; Apple II; CPU; and other english words intersperced. There were no /// articles that I could discern. But there was one Apple // article in english ("A History of Swiftyware" by David Wing). Most amazing to me was the five page advertisement from A2 Central's "Resource Central" catalog. In addition, t.0123456789:;<=>ff, Practical Computer Consignments in Springfield, Virginia will buy, sell or trade any and all makes of computers. President Ed Kay says they do get Apple //s and some ///s. But (as you might imagine) their inventory tends toward MS-DOS and Macintosh. ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman SOURCES I am constantly looking for new sources of repairs and equipment for our SARA and would like to share some of my findings with you this month. First orly days of computers and say to all the doubters, 'See? We told you the computer could do all that." Grace Hopper didn't quite make it. But she was close enough to still be able to say "I told you so." -30- -30ers. But her most famous contribution came when she coined the word "bug", to describe all those problems we seem to have with our computers on occasion. The Times says she really wanted to live until the year 2000, so she could point back "to the eations to the development of modern computing systems, including helping invent the COBOL language..." She actually helped develop the world's first electronic computer, the ENIAC, and later helped develop the first practical compiler for modern computr. But I wanted to make a brief mention of her here in my column because she was so responsible for laying the foundation for the computer industry we have today. A New York Times article published on January 3rd said she made "several vital contribuof support, please contact Tom Linders, 12604 Wardell Ct., Saratoga, CA. 95070. I wonder if they'd be interesting in becoming a slice of WAP. Hmmmmmmm. APPRECIATION Navy Rear Adm. Grace Hopper died New Year's day. The name might not be familiay comes to the meetings here, so why continue? This is distressing news, since ATUNC is the only "active" Apple /// group remaining on the west coast. If you can help with an article (and yes, you can send it to me too for the Journal!) or a letter hat: I have had four responses to my query of what shall we do? All four plus yours truly say let's stop. I will finish out the dues year as your editor and then, unless things change, I'm out. I usually get nothing to put in this publication, and noboddisks and am sending Koji a ton of Apple /// PD software. Maybe we'll get something back! ATUNC NEWS The Apple Three Users of Northern California continues into the new year. But Newsletter editor Tom Linders writes in the January, 1992 edition tJapan that offered Apple //, /// or Lisa/Mac XL software. I'm frankly not sure there ARE any. If I can find someone who can understand japanese, I'll have them take a look and try to find any other tidbits. Finally, I've gone through all my extra PD ac XL should get in touch with DAFAX at 1-800-323-1751 for a catalog. They claim, by the way, to be upgrading the MacWorks Plus software from Sun Remarketing to break the System 6.0.3 barrier. Interestingly enough, there were NO ads from companies in here was a one page ad for a company called DAFAX that listed a complete line of LISA products! In fact, these folks are actively working to upgrade and improve LISA/MAC XL Software. And they're based in Malba, New York. Any of you folks who own a Lisa/M If you want to sell your computer, you bring it in and set the price. If they sell it, you'll pay them a percentage (20%). Haggling is discouraged by the way. Your price is the one they try to sell it for. They also sell printers ahour mode like this: 23:13:53. And DATE$ returns the date as: 92/02/19. You can improve on this greatly by taking a look at how we deal with the problem in our MENU.MAKER program (thanks to Jim Salerno): 1400 REM ..... "DATE.TIME.LINE" .... 1 Did you notice the use of DATE$ and TIME$ in the program to return the date and time (you'll need a clock chip)? Unfortunately, Business Basic PRINTS both to the screen in a way that is less than usefull. For example, TIME$ returns the time in 24 10:VPOS=8 70 PRINT"1 Last Selection on Menu" 80 VPOS=22 90 PRINT"Select by Number or Press ";CHR$(127);"Q to Reboot" 100 GET q$ 110 IF ASC(q$)=241 THEN STOP 120 IF q$="0" THEN GOTO 110 130 IF q$<>"1" THEN GOTO 80:ELSE GOTO 110 140 TEXT:HOMEe in the WAP office library). The menu program looks like this: 10 PRINT CHR$(16);CHR$(1);CHR$(19);CHR$(13);CHR$(20);CHR$(4) 20 HOME 30 PRINT DATE$; TAB(18);"MENU"; TAB(32); TIME$ 40 HPOS=10:VPOS=6 50 PRINT"0 First Selection on Menu" 60 HPOS=een on (16) same as BASIC word "NORMAL" (18) same as BASIC word "INVERSE" Wayne notes there are many CHR$ commands you can use (check out CHR$(127)). A complete list is in your Basic manuals and in the Miastakowski Apple /// book (all availably from Basic. Wayne explains that: CHR$(28) will clear the current screen, the same as the BASIC word "HOME". Other useful control characters (but by no means a complete list) are (07) beep (14) turn the screen off like Control-5 (15) turn the scr an excellent series on Basic programming. For example, the program below creates a neat little on-screen menu that shows the usefullness of using CHR$ text commands. Along the way, it also offers some other tips, like how to use the Open Apple kele mining in our growing "Best of ATUNC" PD disks. If you have, you know there's a tremendous wealth of information that can help you get a little bit more out of your SARA. For example, on an upcoming Best of disk (#5 to be exact). Wayne Schotten offers Their number is 513-429-5759. By the way, I've asked our crack office staff to send both these companies information about WAP. Hopefully they'll sign on as new advertisers! ATUNC DISKS I'm not sure if you've had a chance to do a littoffered super serial cards (which work in the ///) for $49.00 (Same as Sun Remarketing), //e 5 1/4 drives for $76.00, etc. For more information, you can send a self addressed stamped envelope to: Creative Solutions, 2650 Crone Rd, Beavercreek Ohio 45434. They also repair Lasers. Mother board repairs run from $69.00. Power supplies are $29.00 (all costs plus $5.00 shipping) They also have bargain basement prices on all kinds of cards for the //, disk drives, etc. For example, in a recent ad they 03. Out in Beavercreek, (Dayton) Ohio, Creative Solutions says if they can't fix something, they won't charge you save for shipping costs. Gene Dalrymple says the company does repairs on Apple //s and Macs and has done some work with Apple ///s. charge and labor is $55.00/hour. The company plans to move this summer to a facility that will include a 4000 square foot showroom (they claim to have the largest computer consignment showroom in the DC area already). Their number is (703)-321-30nd some software if it can still be registered. There's also a repair center and Kay says they will look at /// disk drives and power supplies. Most of their repair work, though, goes for Macs and MS-DOS machines. There's a $45.00 trouble shooting410 M=VAL(MID$(DATE$,4,2)) 1420 ON M GOTO 1430,1440,1450,1460,1470,1480,1490,1500,1510,1520,1530,1540 1430 M$="JANUARY":GOTO 1550 1440 M$="FEBRUARY":GOTO 1550 1450 M$="MARCH":GOTO 1550 1460 M$="APRIL":GOTO 1550 1470 M$="MAY":GOTO 1550 1480 M$="JUNE":GOTO 1550 1490 M$="JULY":GOTO 1550 1500 M$="AUGUST":GOTO 1550 1510 M$="SEPTEMBER":GOTO 1550 1520 M$="OCTOBER":GOTO 1550 1530 M$="NOVEMBER":GOTO 1550 1540 M$="DECEMBER":GOTO 1550 1550 PRINT TAB(26);"-";M$;" ";VAL(RIGHT$ ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman SALE OF THE TITANS Our final reminder that the Titan ///+// and ///+//e sale ends on May 31st. The special price for the ///+// card is just $99.00 and ///+//e is irts for sale, SARAs that need to be repaired, demos of programs and even wild discussions about Business Basic. Maybe even a refreshment or two. It should be fun so bring your questions and I'll look forward to seeing you! Post Printer $150.00 Imagewriter // WAP Journal Printer $200.00 FINALLY Please remember our meeting on April 18th at 10am in the WAP Office. We'll have PD disks and Apple /// T-Sh $329.00 Imagewriter // Post Printer $250.00 Imagewriter // Post Printer $100.00 Imagewriter // Post Printer $185.00 Imagewriter // CPU/RGB/2DD/PCT/PR $955.00 Apple //gs 2.75MB WOZ WAP Journal CPU/RGB/20HD/3DD/PR+ $1500.00 Apple //gs 1.25MB Micro Systems CPU $599.00 Imagewriter // Sun Printer ple //c 128K Sun CPU $249.00 Apple //gs Sun CPU $399.00 Apple //gs Post CPU/MON/2DD/PR/SW $600.00 Apple //gs 1.25MB Post/MON/DD/PR/SW $350.00 Apple //e Post CPU/MON/2DD/PR/SW $300.00 Apple //e 1MB WAP Journal CPU/MON/2DD/PR/SW $500.00 Apple //e Micro Systems "Systems from" $349.00 Ap Sun CPU $345.00 Apple /// 256K Sun CPU/MON $349.00 Apple //e 128K Sun CPU $229.00 Apple //e Post CPUisk; + = Much More "Micro Systems" advertises in Computer Shopper's Classifieds section. COMPUTER/PRINTER SOURCE SYSTEM? PRICE Apple /// 128K Sun CPU $295.00 Apple /// 256K 92. Sun Remarketing will be used as our "base" for what Apple //s and ///s are being sold for by commerical resalers. CPU = Computer ; MON = Monitor; DD = Disk Drive; PR = Printer; SW = Software RGB = RGB Color Monitor; PCT = PC Transporter; HD = Hard Dme, offer the following chart for comparison sake. Format changes will likely occur so stay tuned. I'll note type of computer or peripheral, where it was advertised, if its an entire system or not and the price. Prices listed are current as of March, 19 like: April 25, 1992 not to mention a running clock (assuming you have a clock chip) that is in a 12 hour format. PRICE WATCH I've become interested in following the ever-changing prices of our Apple // family machines and will, from time to ti IF VAL(LEFT$(TIME$,2))=>12 THEN PRINT" PM-":ELSE PRINT" AM-" 1590 ON KBD GOTO 1630 1600 IF WW=1 THEN 390 1610 HPOS=26:VPOS=21:GOTO 1400 1620 GOTO 1400 1630 OFF KBD:WW=1:RETURN 1640 REM In this way, you get a readable date(DATE$,2));", ";"19";LEFT$(DATE$,2);" "; 1560 IF VAL(LEFT$(TIME$,2))=>13 THEN PRINT VAL(LEFT$(TIME$,2))-12;RIGHT$(TIME$,6);:GOTO 1580 1570 IF VAL(LEFT$(TIME$,2))=0 THEN PRINT"12";RIGHT$(TIME$,6);:ELSE PRINT TIME$; 1580 $199.00. Call Titan Support at 1-313-429-8547 to order. MORE TITAN Beyond the Users Guide that comes with the Titan Cards, where can you find more information? Our PD library of course! Doing a search through our PD library files, I ha?ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWngton Apple `, Ltd." IF you have our 5.0 version of Menu.Maker (the one now used with our graphics disks) this line is line 300. Also note the " ^" and "`" characters are changed with our WAP.STANDARD font included with all our new disks to show aBasic's ability to look at its internal clock and return DATE$ upon command. DATE$ only returns the last two digits of the year, so we do have to hard code in the "19": 270 VPOS=3:HPOS=14:PRINT"This /// SIG Disk is ^ 19";LEFT$(DATE$,2)", Washiupon a rather simple piece of code to make sure the menu always displays the correct (see below) year for the copyright notice. In the past, I've simply hard coded the year in as each new one came along. But there's an easier way to do it using Business ll also refuse to go into emulation mode. I think Dave finally got everything up and running finally, but it remained a mystery why there were troubles. MENU MAKER I continue to look for ways to improve our Menu.Maker program and hit ure his /// was working properly with the Titan cards out of his ///. I also suggested he check that the Shorting Plug or a Joystick was installed in socket UF-1. If that plug is "empty" the /// will boot the Titan disk and will boot /// disks. But it wive power is this normal? Does anyone know where I can get help? Consorti doesn't / can't return my c calls. The Titan worked before so I suspect something like the power supply. I've reseated all the chips to no avail." I suggested Dave make sI + IIe and went to format the ramdisk when my /// refued to boot. I first got garbage when I tried the Titan but it would boot a straight /// disk ok. Then it refused to even try booting. I checked the power supply and two or three of the pins don't ha you. I am such a nice guy sometimes! TITAN PROBLEMS And yes, even though the Titan cards are usually pretty reliable, our own Dave Jernigan has been having some problems with his new ///+//e cards: "I finally broke down and bought the Titan IIJuly of 1986) to TAUTALES, the old /// Magazine and even the WAP Journal. I can see your eyes glazing over as you try to wade through all these places sooooooo I'll look into putting together one PD disk with all this information in one place forhe Titan ///+// cards and Catalyst in emulation mode. I also did a search in my ThreeWorks disks and found that in additional to the ATUNC articles mentioned above, you'll find a ton of information in everything from A+ (a positive review done in Datasystem's RAM drivers for the Titan cards (which are in our PD library - 3UTL-18 - AND are included with the Titan cards when you order them from Titan Support). Other places to go for help: 3UTL-03 (Apple II Emulation), which discusses using tood and bad features. On 3INF-28, "The Best of ATUNC #6 (available this month) you'll find an excellent discussion about the jumpers on the Titan ///+//e cards and how to install a switch to make them easier to use. You'll also find a review of DA ve found 11 disks that mention the Titan in one way or another. Perhaps your best resource in all those disks is on 3INF-27: "The Best of ATUNC #5." In there, you will find a series of articles about the Titan cards including descriptions, reviews, and g (C) and a "Pi" respectively. Type this in exactly as you see it here. LEFT$(DATE$,2) tells Business Basic to return the left two numbers from DATE$, which happens to be "92". Of course, this all is predicated on your having a /// with a clock and it's been set to the proper date. You can use System Utilities to do that, or, from within Business Basic, you can run the TIMESET program found on disks 3BSB-08 or 3MSC-11. By the way, one other reason I HAVE hardcoded the "19" in is because disk and printed them (using the print queue of course!), the list was about 30 pages long and I now have over 1,700 files on my hard drive which makes backup that much more important. A lot of people have been asking about computer viruses since the lee (NOTE: The Trackball is also available from On Three). The main reason I'm getting the new drive it is to share AppleWorks files between my Apple /// and someone elses //c+, and also backing up data for my clients. I spooled my directory listings tohe keyboard. The trackball uses less space than my mouse, which was always running into papers and stuff. The Trackball works well with Draw On Three and the Graphics Manager, but I may have to get rid of it when the new 800K CPS drive arrives from On Thr between Big Blue and Cupertino. NEWS FROM PAUL CAMPBELL In mid March Paul told us on the TCS that: My own SARA is cruising along as usual, I installed a trackball a few weeks ago. It's a lot of fun going in and out of programs without using tught at one point that he had killed the Apple ///, but it went on anyhow." " ... The Apple ///, the Lisa, and now the Macintosh were all failures." Tim says the book dwells on IBM twice as much as Apple, ending with last year's alliancefully, hold it twelve to eighteen inches above a level surface, and then drop it... " " ... With the introduction of the Apple /// in 1980, life had become much more businesslike at Apple, which suddenly had two product lines to sell." " ... Jobs tho/// had many problems, including the fact that the automated machinery that inserted dozens of chips on the main circuit board didn't push them into their sockets firmly enough. Apple's answer was to tell 90,000 customers to pick up their Apple /// careh. Back in 1979 ... I remember siting in a movie theater in Palo Alto with one of the Apple /// designers, pumping him for information about it." " There were only 90,000 Apple /// computers ever made, which sounds like a lot but isn't. The Apple f the book dwells on the specific personalities and corporate mistakes made in the growing industry. Of course it has to talk about our Apple ///. Here are some quotations: " ... I came across a shelf of Apple /// computers for sale for $100 eact this new book by Robert X. Cringely: My Mother gave me this book for my birthday. I am posting this review because it mentions the Apple /// five times. It is about the history of the computer industry in Silicon Valley 1975 -- April 1991. Most o. Lastly, if you are interested, there's a tutorial from ///'s Company on the New Member Disk on installing a battery backup in your ///. ACCIDENTAL EMPIRES /// SIG member Tim Bouquet offered these comments recently on our TCS board abouS fame) tells us: Order part # MM58167AN, 24 pin microprocessor real time clock chip for $6.95. This simply plugs into the only empty chip socket on the motherboard of your ///. I am also working to get some clock chips for the SIG. Stay Tuned SOFTWARE.HELPS). Finally if you DON'T have a system clock (and you should!!), you can order the On Time kit from On Three for just $24.95 (206-334-8001) or you can order the clock chip from Jameco (415-592-8097). As Ed Gooding (of ///'s Company BByour /// can't return the correct year past 1999 (I guess Apple never thought our SARA would last past that). There is a way around the problem, though. Check out the file "TIMESET.2000" on disk 3REP-03. It's also on our New Members Disk 3INF-02 (file isatest scare with the Michaelangelo virus. A few large companies got hit on this last March 6th. Everyone kept asking me what I was doing to protect my own system, my reply (with a smile) was "I don't use IBM". Although my workplace took precautions with the Mainframe and all the PCs, we still had a lot of system errors and abends (processing jobs that fail to complete properly). In answer to Tim's review above, Paul commented that: RE: " ... The Apple ///, the Lisa, and now the Macintosh were allice or give me a call. FINALLY I've been meaning to mention this for awhile but didn't have the time till now. Our hats go off to Bridgehill Associates (a computer repair/maintenance firm based in Herndon, Virginia) whose business cards sport aetter's column in the November, 1987 issue. The UPIC Parallel driver, if you need it, is on 3UTL-01 and 3 UTL-04. Disk 3UTL-12 has Daryl Andersons wonderful print buffer drivers for the UPIC. As for the UPIC manual, there should be a copy in the WAP offn the pins that segregates the last four rows of pins on both ends. The cable plugs into the middle ten pairs of pins. For more information about the UPIC and its parallel cable, see our PD disk 3INF-10 (Inpert's Corner by Bloom) or On Three's L even though it looks wrong. The connector on the cable only connects to the pins in the middle of the card connector. There is supposed to be a couple of black insulated covers over the pins at each end of the card connector. You should see a "break" ie only cable they have and that "of course" it won't work (it doesn't). Does anybody know where I can get a real UPIC cable, or a wiring diagram so I can have one made? Ed Gooding responded with: It sounds like you DID get the right UPIC cable,et a parallel printer to work with my Apple ///. My first step was to order a UPIC cable from Sun. They send what appears to be the wrong cable. The UPIC end of the cable has a connector 1/2 the length of the connector on th UPIC itself. Sun says that's thparallel card cables of late. The cable itself is non-standard on the UPIC card side. Some of the same troubles surfaced recently on the Micronetworked Apple Users Group (MAUG) on Compuserve. The original problem was Steven Templeton's: I'm trying to gsk to another, you copy your file from disk to printer. It will NOT be formatted however and unlike System Utilities, you can only select one file to print. PARALLEL CABLE PROBLEMS Some of our /// SIG members have been having troubles with UPIC 2." DESKTOP MANAGER TIP One of the neat things you can do using the Disk Manager module is print any text file from within ANY program. It works just like System Utilities in that you select the Copy File command & instead of copying from one di been looking back 10 years to some of the issues of that day and time. According to TAU: Reseller's News asked, "Has Apple solved the reliability and software problems it had with the Apple ///? That was a serious question on their mind in January, 198 guarantee. Interested? Call him at (408)-741-1001. As for the TAU Journal, they kindly continue to reprint some of my old Trail columns. There's also a report that the /// was mentioned in the March issue of Reseller's News. The publication hasppy to report receiving both the TAU Journal and ATUNC Newsletters in the mail in March. The ATUNC publication has some great Business Basic tips and Tom Linders reports he has Profiles and Apple ///s for sale at $50.00 each, with a 90 day parts and laborll easily leave behind. The Lisa became like the Mac but was verrry expensive. Although it took a few years for the Macintosh to match the speed of the ///, the Desktop Publishing industry was virtually created by the Macintosh. CLUB NEWS I'm ha failures." > From a business standpoint, yes. From a technology standpoint, no. There is not an IBM pc or Mac in the world that does not use the Apple ///'s HFS (Hierarchical File System), and there are hundreds of thousands of computers that the /// win Apple /// computer logo! Now if the /// could run TEMPEST for the federal government.... nt.... MENU.MAKER 6.0 By David Ottalini WAP /// SIG Co-Chairman I'm happy to announce this month a major upgrade to our /// SIG's Menu.Maker program which is now available on PD disk 3BSB-09. Menu.Maker is our Basic Menu program that allows users to * SEE THE FOTO AND PRINT IT * SEE THE FOTO AND PRINT IT IN INVERSE MODE * RETURN TO MENU.MAKER In using the SCR.PRT.INV screen print module, I discovered that the FOTOfile must be presented in INVERSE modet a considerable time working on and think you'll find it to be the most interesting. When you choose a FOTOfile from Menu.Maker, you are transfered to the SEG.G module and given a new menu with four choices: * SEE THE FOTO ON SCREEN e hard-coded in .D1 as the disk the programs should go back to when CHAINing. This is easily changed by you if you want this on a hard disk so that the program can look for the proper pathname. THE GRAPHICS MODULE The SEG.G file is one I've spenwhen you originally booted Menu.Maker are not destroyed (primarily the prefixes and DIMed arrays). When the module is finished, it returns control back to Menu.Maker. Look through the text versions of the programs on this disk and you'll note we'vll also only be included on disks where changing fonts is necessary. When that happens, we'll also include the required DOWNLOAD.INV invokable module. Menu.Maker is able to access these modules by CHAINing to them. That way, all the variables set ve space and can include more information. It's likely that SEG.T will remain on at least one side of all new PD offerings, since we usually always include text files to explain what's on a given disk. The module that allows you to change fonts, SEG.F wipulled out and are now separate files called SEG.T, SEG.G and SEG.F respectively. They are NOT stand-alone programs. On disks that don't have FOTOfiles, we WON'T include the SEG.G file or associated SCR.PRT.INV or BGRAF.INV files. That way, we sa to another disk prefix quickly and easily. BY THE MODULES First of all, when you CATALOG your disk, you'll notice that the Menu.Maker file itself is much smaller now. That's because the Text, Graphics and Font sections of the program have been s happening and attempts to have a friendlier face while doing its chores. The graphics module is expanded and provides support for two styles of printing and (if you have a color printer) limited single color printing capabilities. You can also now change it comes in a modular form with modules now named using the familier 3EZ Pieces/Appleworks file format. The 6.0 version of Menu.Maker presents a better, more professional look when reading text files. It gives you a better on-screen idea of what' Co-Chairman who still struggles with programming. But after a lot of effort (and even some thought), an upgraded version of the program will now be available on our new PD disks. The program has been designed to make it easier to use on a hard disk. AndXZ[\]^_`abcdefghijwork their way through many of our Public Domain disks. With it, users can read ASCII text files on screen, load and print graphics and change fonts. As with any Business Basic program, it has its limitations, not the least of which is a /// SIG on screen in order to print properly (that is in normal mode). A FOTOfile that is printed in INVERSE results in a printed background and outline of the FOTO. In Normal mode, the background is clear and the FOTO is properly outlined. Since I've been doing a lot of "Floppy Coloring Books" of late with graphics that are scanned using a Quickie Scanner, I wanted the pictures to be in INVERSE mode so that they would be printed properly with the SCR.PRT.INV invokable module. But the FOTO doesn'r's main screen. FONT MODULE This little program basically remains unchanged from its original version in earlier Menu.Maker programs. It will download into memory any fontfile you desire so long as you have the DOWNLOAD.INV invokablnd there's a special surprise. We've added a timer display at the bottom. By the way, the program prints 60 lines per page, and then does a form feed. At the end of the file, it will do another form feed for you and then return you to Menu.Makees at a time from top to bottom. You can still pause at any time and choose to return to Menu.Maker. You also still have the option to print the file as well. When printing, the screen now prints the first 18 lines so you can see what it is. Arinter driver and the Graphics driver, it should work fine. TEXT MODULE The text module has been cleaned up a bit to make it faster and easier to use. Unlike previous versions of MM, the text does not scroll but is presented on the screen 18 lin, note that I've been working with Seikosha and Panasonic Serial printers that have EPSON emulation. I frankly havn't tested this module using a parallel printer. But if you simply replace the included SOS.Driver file with one of your own that has your pack to the Graphics Menu. If you have a color printer, it will be reset to Black. From the menu, you can print another copy of the graphic or return to Menu.Maker. By the way, aborting a print once it's started is pretty much impossible. Finally. Choose yes or no to the box. For color, choose Black if you don't have a color printer. Otherwise, you can choose from colors ranging from red to blue or yellow. Once the picture is done printing, the printer will do a form feed and you'll be bhat color it should be printed in. You may choose to have the FOTOfile printed centered or to the left. If you say yes to "Should it be rotated?" you'll get a large picture printed at 90 degrees. Otherwise, you'll get a smaller picture front on By selecting choices 2 or 3 to print the graphic, you will be given additional choices to make. These have to do with the way the graphic is printed, whether you want it boxed or not and (if you have a color printer using an Epson emulation mode) wl at once. The only problem? It IS slow. By the way, if you choose to Look at a FOTOfile and it is INVERSED on screen, that means the original file on disk is in NORMAL mode. If you decide to print it, use the See and Print Inversed selection. u PERFORM Grafixson (that is, turn on the screen to see the graphic) before these procedures, the FOTOfile will magically INVERSE from top to bottom in front of your eyes. Or, if you do it afterwards, the FOTOfile will be inversed and then be presented aldure. Basically, all you have to do is : ) PERFORM XFROPTION (%6) ) PERFORM FILLPORT after you have loaded the FOTOfile (PERFORM GLOAD.x). The (%6) means the XFROPTION procedure will INVERSE INVERT the file in combination with PERFORM FILLPORT. IF yookable called XFROPTION. Designed for use with black and white graphics, XFROPTION specifies what happens when one color is plotted over another. The answer to INVERSING a FOTOfile turned out to be fairly easy once I played about with the procet always look that great on screen in INVERSE mode. So, I searched for a way to INVERSE the FOTOfiles as presented on screen. That way they would appear in NORMAL mode. I found the answer using an advanced procedure offered by the BGRAF.INV graphics inve module available on the disk for which you've set the prefix. IMPROVEMENTS What else can be done to improve Menu.Maker? I'd enjoy your comments and suggestions. I want to continue working on the Text module. I'm still unhappy with the way text is displayed on the screen in the sense that when you INPUT a string from the specified file, it can be very long. Unless I've gone through and inserted a RETURN at the end of each line, the program will litterally load and scroll each string of text ( the office and Bill Wydro for helping smooth the way for our meeting. DIRECTORIES GONE BY... Along with some additions for our PD library, Martin Davidson also contributed an old Vanloves 1983 Apple // and /// Software Directory. It's fun tod afterwards, five of us went out to keep things going over lunch. It was really just a fun time and I think everyone came away with a little more appreciation for what our 12 year old SARAsaur can still do and do well. My thanks to Beth Medlin at(you can say those kinds of things when you are writing about it!). A meeting that was originally scheduled to last two hours stretched into three and a half. We gave out On Three T-shirts, there were lots of free disks to look through, catalogs, etc. Anf the things he's been doing (see some of his comments below). His demonstration of On Three's Macro Manager created the most interest. Later, I demonstrated the new 6.0 version of Menu.Maker, taking it through its paces to generally rave reviews tseville, Virginia and Seth Mize made it in from Glen Burnie. Tim Bouquet and your's truly rounded out the local contingent. Paul brought his /// with 40 MB Sider Hardisk, 800k disk drive and Panasonic printer to present a great tour through some okmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~pbell drove all night from Detroit to be there. Martin Davidson came down from Ontario, Canada on his way to a vacation with his wife in Florida. Steve Truax came in with his wife from Charleston, West Virginia. Dave and Joan Jernigan drove in from Lovet ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman /// SIG MEETING What a lot of fun it was! We had a total of nine people who stuffed themselves into the small tutorial room at the WAP office April 18th. Paul Cam -30- g on April 18th and designed to help show off what Menu.Maker can do. I hope you enjoy the disk - and new Menu Maker as much as I have programming it for you. Your comments/suggestions/programming improvements are very welcome. ng all the files on a hardisk and making sure the prefixs are set accordingly in the programs. Along with the new Menu.Maker on disk 3BSB-09 you'll find a number of special articles, graphics and fonts originally put together for our /// SIG meetinelp! I also plan to use Daryl Anderson's BASIC GTO to try and speed the program up a bit more. But so long as it's disk-based, it will always be slow. It takes time to read and load files. That's why you CAN speed things up considerably by placiactually each paragraph is a better way to describe it.) It can be very disconcerting. I also continue to search for ways to read 3EZ Pieces text files. It can be done from Pascal and from Applesoft Basic. There's no reason we can't do it too. H take a look at what was available back then for the ///. Still amazing, in fact, that despite the problems, developers were producing software for our computer. In this Directory there were 52 programs listed. In introducing the Apple /// section, Softalk Magazine's Al Tommervik commented that: Apple made some mistakes in its development and introduction of the Apple ///, but the biggest mistakes are now being made by the folks who overlook this incredible machine when deciding on hardware buys.is all that much easier or quicker. ON THREE Out of the Tim Harrington conversation above, On Three's Bob Consorti also chimed in with an update on how he's doing: I'm still in Chicago going to school and planning which grad school to go apply t No, we don't double click on things and drag files (or "folders") around, but I feel like I can do what's needed quickly enough to suit me! Besides, I don't really feel that the GS System Tools, with their "Installation Scripts" to install drivers t up their SOS.DRIVER file. The Apple dealer was supposed to do that for them at the time of purchase or as needed later. Unfortunately, over time and with the loss of support, we all had to learn how to use the System Configuration Program to get by. mewood reminded Tim, however that: That's still better than having to flip switches to input octal code. I still have to use a Honeywell 316 at work sometimes . . . ;-) Actually, Apple DIDN'T expect the average business user to ser would stop by and play with it. We got a big chuckle out of the System Utilities. I can't believe they expected the average user to be able to add and modify device drivers like that! Oh well, the wheels of progress still turn. MAUGer Loren Daound stuck in the corner of our lab the other day? You guessed it, an Apple ///. I fired it up just for yucks, and it worked great. I even found an old Profile with various /// programs on it. I had it set up in my cube for a while. People from all ove. SARA LIVES IN CUPERTINO! Our old Apple /// friend Tim Harrington (responsible for many of the Desktop Manager modules and other ON THREE Software) now works at Apple and commented on CompuServe recently that: You know what I fthe best articles published about the /// onto disk for all to enjoy. This is something every member can work on in a free moment or two. If everyone helps with just one article, we'll have lots of new PD disks - and ensure the legacy of our /// lives onThe Jernigans have been in contact with the Washington Post's Bob Levy, who has promised to help. I also hope to be contacting every SIG member by mail, asking you to do a little transcribing for us. One long-time project has been to get some of lso need some volunteers to take a look at some of the donated ///s in the office and find out if they run and if not, to repair them. I want to keep one 512K machine at the office for our own use. But after that, our ///s need to find some good homes. where the slots for interface hards are). Dave and Joan Jernigan got one and I'm waiting to hear how it's working for them. These were the original "Core ///" fans as advertised and sold by Joe Dobrowolski of Apple Users Group International. We ainal boxes with manuals. We have lots of Pascal manuals for those interested and even a CP/M card or two. I also have one more /// Fan available if anyone is interested. You'll need some hardware to install it, though. It fits in the back of your /// (n smaller microcomputers in that they're so much more capable and faster." SOFTWARE/HARDWARE IF you have a need for a specific program like Visicalc, AppleWriter, etc. please let me know. We have many donated programs that are still in their orig The Apple /// is now reliable, powerful and useful. He went on to say that "The SOS operating system is a dream to work with" and said the programs detailed in the Apple /// section bore little relationahip "to what you're accustomed to seeing oo - Stanford is high on my list so I might be coming back to the west coast next year. Funny you should ask about new products. I've actually gone back into the old GoBack project every other weekend when I get some time. I have the ultimate Apple /// development environment now. I use my souped-up 10 mhz GS to assemble directly to a partition on a shared hard disk that I access from the ///. After assembling it just takes a fraction of a second to hit return from Selector and test it. By the wPAN Our new Japanese friend Koji Annoura has become a member of WAP! He recently messaged me on Compuserve to ask permission to reprint the club's PD disk offerings and Membership form in his "Annie's Letter" newsletter. Being the nice person thmputer for that law firm in Detroit has been keeping busy. An attorney from another firm has been using the system as well with her own subdirectory on the hard drive, and other people in the office are considering buying an Apple ///. AN UPDATE FROM JAlast sales day at the top of the screen. All this takes 3 seconds. One of the new ///'s will be used to run a church, that includes book keeping, membership, and word processing. I'll let everyone know how it works out. BTW; The SARA used as the ONLY coThe cashier presses "solid-apple t", and SARA gets the sales history database, sorts the file, then puts the report on the screen with the total number of items sold, the total sales amount, the total sales amount plus tax, and then the total tax with the ere intimidated for a long time, but now that they know it is easier than the cash register, they are bugging me to get things rolling again. I re-wrote the macros to make operations more simple. One feature that they really like is the day-end totals. e comments on the TCS demonstrate: I have 7 people waiting for Apple ///'s. I have a couple here in the midst of repair and Tom Manion is sending a couple more. The bookstore that purchased a /// is finally going to put it to use. Most of the employees wlike to see, please write On Three and let them know. DETROIT UPDATE Paul Campbell continues his work to get every business in Detroit to switch from their Messy-Dos computers to our Apple ///s. But success is breeding problems, as thesnow. And he said Bob is still interested in producing more 512K upgrade kits IF there is enough interest. The 512K upgrade is probably the best thing you could ever do to ensure your /// remains usefull for many years. IF you think it's something you'd t most, but the worst time that I got for finding the last file on a 16 Meg partition with 129 DIRECTORIES of files was less than 6 seconds... pretty impressive! Paul confirmed at the SIG meeting that Bob was committed to finishing GoBack rked perfectly. It includes; Find Files, Area Code+Zone, List files, and Disk Eraser. Find Files is the most valuable new DA for me, I now have over 2,800 files on my main drive. The documentation for Find Files says that a search should take 15 seconds a, and got a package in the mail the very next week! The drive itself was not in the package (Bob likes to test the drives for about a week before shipping), but it should be well worth the short wait. Super Accessories Disk #4 arrived, was loaded, and wo on the WAP TCS that: I am grateful that On Three remains in business, and also that (Bob Consorti) continues to make himself available for questions concerning our SARA. I sent an order to On Three for an 800K CPS drive and some software a few weeks backttle lands on occasion). Their new order number is 1-805-822-8580 and the address is 1174 Hickory Ave. Zip code is 93561. And there's more. Detroit ///er Paul Campbell has had more than one occassion to call Bob for some help. He noted recentlyay, On Three (that is, Bob Consorti's parents) has moved once again. The company is now in a little town called Tehachapi, California not too far from where your's truly grew up (in Lancaster and Quartz Hill - all near Edwards Air Force Base where the Shuat I am, I said sure. Koji says of WAP "It's big news to Japanese Apple users and many users will join your group." 24 PIN PRINTERS I finally decided to upgrade my printer from the 9 pin Seikosha that had faithfully served me for so long. Since laser printers (and even Deskjets) are still too pricey, I decided to go with a 24 pin printer. Everything I've read about 24 pin printers and the /// suggested there would be few problems in making the switch. My experiences with the Panasonic KX-P2123/ section, Softalk Magazine's Al Tommervik commented that: Apple made some mistakes in its development and introduction of the Apple ///, but the biggest mistakes are now being made by the folks who overlook this incredible machine when deciding on hardwas fun to take a look at what was available back then for the ///. Still amazing, in fact, that despite the problems, developers were producing software for our computer. In this Directory there were 52 programs listed. In introducing the Apple // ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman DIRECTORIES GONE BY... Along with some additions for our PD library, Martin Davidson also contributed an old Vanloves 1983 Apple // and /// Software Directory. It'lies; Keyboards; Profile Interface cards; Internal disk drives and parts and Profile Hard Drives. Wayne's number for more information is 410-263-4053 in Annapolis. -30- - -30- nd other Apples and does repairs as well. He recently noted on the TCS that: I have a list of Apple III computers and stuff which may be of interest to someone: 3 Apple III computers 256k (computers only); Spare Parts including Motherboards; Power Suppt feeder. It also prints Apple /// graphics very well, thank you. And it works just as well with my //GS! FINALLY It's nice to know there's someone fairly local who can do Apple /// repairs. Wayne Meckling is one. He sells used ///s arecognized it (you can switch back to parallel anytime.) I love the text quality and the fact it's much faster than my 9 pin printer. The KX-2123 has a "Quiet" mode should you desire it, three different paper paths and ability to handle a cut shee programming the many available features. The only thing I really had to do was switch to 2400 baud and set the top of page command. Once I'd installed the Serial port (which required taking the printer partially apart), the printer automatically what I was running with the Seikosha. There are some control code differences however due to the additional features and color capabilty of the printer. The operating manual is fairly easy to understand. But you have to study it a bit to get the hang ofat savings went into the purchase of a serial port for the printer (since I don't want to waste a slot with a parallel card). The Panasonic runs in both Epson and IBM emulation modes and that's the key. The Epson mode is essentially the same as proved that to be true. First off, I got a great deal through Staples. Their sale price equalled or bettered anything I could find in Computer Shopper. And on top of that, I found a coupon in the paper for a free color upgrade kit ($49.00!). Thre buys. The Apple /// is now reliable, powerful and useful. He went on to say that "The SOS operating system is a dream to work with" and said the programs detailed in the Apple /// section bore little relationahip "to what you're accustomed to seeing on smaller microcomputers in that they're so much more capable and faster." SOFTWARE/HARDWARE IF you have a need for a specific program like Visicalc, AppleWriter, etc. please let me know. We have many donated programs that are still in th the correctly formatted characters back to you, and keep checking I/O devices for other input. This a lot of work even for the accelerated Apple]['s. I find that this problem is not only on the TCS. As of this writing I have only found one BBS that can hse to do besides spit out the file full- blast and display the returned characters in the screen.... unless we change the character delay! On the other hand, the TCS Apple ]['s must receive your characters, perform word-wrap and linefeed functions, blasts: The CPU speed difference is not the problem with your X Modem failures. Most problems with speed occur when transmitting a text file using the "Open Apple - T" (or similar function in other programs). Since the /// is interrupt driven, it has little elwork can exceed the timeout normally provided. Modern comm. programs include a provision for "relaxed timing" which doubles (or more) the timeout period to accomadate such delays. And Paul Campbell couldn't resist weighing in with his own thoughtto you machine within the relavant timeout period - I have never experienced this problem with a direct connection to the TCS (via regular phone lines) but I have encountered it over packet-switched networks such as PCPursuit, where the delays from the netto the machine speed, which can reck havoc in time-critical routines that depend on REAL time if the machine is accelerated or something like that .... The other thing that might make problems, is if the TCS were for some reason not getting characters doing something wrong. TCS Mavin Dale Smith answered that: When you're downloading, it doesn't matter if you machine is "too fast" - it would matter if it were "too slow" -- with one proviso: that the comm. program is not keeping time relative using a 2400 baud modem and Consorti's Deskop Manager and got failures when I tried to download, X modem style. Also is his Turbo the same as Y or Z modem? What do I need to be able to download? I can capture fine as in reading messages. Obviously, I'm// lives on. DAVE JERNIGAN'S DOWNLOAD PROBLEMS /// SIGer Dave Jernigan wrestled with a download problem recently and (smartly) sought help on the Pi TCS. He reported that: Seems like our Sara is too fast for the cludgy ][s . I'mget some of the best articles published about the /// onto disk for all to enjoy. This is something every member can work on in a free moment or two. If everyone helps with just one article, we'll have lots of new PD disks - and ensure the legacy of our /ood homes. The Jernigans have been in contact with the Washington Post's Bob Levy, who has promised to help. I also hope to be contacting every SIG member by mail, asking you to do a little transcribing for us. One long-time project has been to We also need some volunteers to take a look at some of the donated ///s in the office and find out if they run and if not, to repair them. I want to keep one 512K machine at the office for our own use. But after that, our ///s need to find some gur /// (where the slots for interface hards are). Dave and Joan Jernigan got one and I'm waiting to hear how it's working for them. These were the original "Core ///" fans as advertised and sold by Joe Dobrowolski of Apple Users Group International. eir original boxes with manuals. We have lots of Pascal manuals for those interested and even a CP/M card or two. I also have one more /// Fan available if anyone is interested. You'll need some hardware to install it, though. It fits in the back of yoandle an Apple /// direct file transmit unless each character is delayed at least 5 milliseconds. Most IBMs can't keep up but a hard running 386 can accept a transmit with a 5ms delay, forget XT's, AT's, and 286's. The Macintosh also has trouble, even the FX. There are only 3 things I can think of that might be causing the Communications Manager (CM) to abort a download. 1; The response from the sending computer system "times out". When this happens, CM waits about 1.5 minutes before aborting because have the answer: A modem eliminator basically reverses pins 2 and 3 in the RS-232 cable. This is necessary for your Serial Printer to work properly. Reversing the pin outs is necessary, because the printer and the A/// both send info out the 2 pin and re text easily from one file to paste into the file you're already working with. FINALLY .... Ever wonder why you need a modem eliminator for your Serial printer to work properly? Our friends at ATUNC, the Apple Three Users of Northern California ll and start it again. Once you do this, it won't stop until finished. This trick works even if you have another file already loaded. It will not harm that file in any way. Thus, with On Three's Desktop Manager or with Powerkeys, you can capturepathname of the file you want to read. But before pressing add a " " to the end of the pathname like this: [L]oad .D2/myfile . Now press and you can read the file without loading it. Use and "7" on the keypad to stop the scrocovered it, in fact, quite by accident. Begin by pressing and "L" or if you have loaded your glossary keypad, press the "0" key on the keypad. Down at the bottom of the screen you'll see the familiar [L]oad selection. Now type in the tions (smile)... TCC's phone number is (202)-362-9702. Their address is 4433 Wisconsin Ave. in NW DC. APPLEWRITER TIP Ever wish you could simply read a file without loading it while you're in Applewriter? Turns out it's quit easy. I dis the final bill if you decide to go forward. They'll determine what's wrong and discuss if it's worth repairing or not. TCC also repairs disk drives and Profiles. They even advertise in the Journal, which shows their very good taste in clubs and publicay from disk drives and other components. MORE REPAIRS Locally, I'm happy to report that Tenlytown Computer Clinic's Steve Ridenhour says his company will also do repairs on Apple ///s. The cost is $55.00 for an estimate, which will be applied tords, he actually goes in and tries to fix the problem. He says his prices are "aggressive" so give him a call at 1-313-429-8547 for rates and information about sending him your problem. Greg says he can fix any Apple // or Apple /// computer but shys awalked to him in late May and he indicated some additional calls were coming in, so hopefully he was able to sell some more cards. Greg also tells me that he can do Apple // family repairs at very reasonable prices. Instead of swapping out motherboaally neat to see all those files transmitted one after another with the correct filenames and everything! TITAN REPORT Greg Stuk at Titan Support reports he did get some takers for our group purchase sale of Titan ///+// and ///+//e cards. I tae download is automaticaly aborted. Most download errors are caused by noise in the phone line. Turbo X Modem is the same as regular X Modem except slightly faster. Binary II is the best for multiple files and David O. sometimes uses it on the TCS, it's re of data downloaded by your SARA is checked for any errors. If an error is detected in the NORMAL download mode, SARA requess that the same data block be transmitted again and continues the download. If an error is detected in the TURBO download mode, ththe other system has not yet transmitted 2; You might have a hardware problem with your ACIA chip - this is not a problem I have ever seen, just a possibility. 3; The most likely cause would be data errors while downloading in the "Turbo" mode. Each blockceive thru the 3 pin. For more info on the Serial port, see page 131 of your owners manual. To use your serial port with a modem you do Not use the modem eliminator. If you have had a special serial cable built for your printer (or plotter), you also would not use the modem eliminator. However, if you want to use a standard RS-232 25 pin cable to hook your serial printer to your built-in serial port, then you must have a modem eliminator. Note that 25 pin cables and modem eliminators are availd homes. The Jernigans have been in contact with the Washington Post's Bob Levy, who has promised to help. I also hope to be contacting every SIG member by mail, asking you to do a little transcribing for us. One long-time project has been to ge We also need some volunteers to take a look at some of the donated ///s in the office and find out if they run and if not, to repair them. I want to keep one 512K machine at the office for our own use. But after that, our ///s need to find some gooyour /// (where the slots for interface hards are). Dave and Joan Jernigan got one and I'm waiting to hear how it's working for them. These were the original "Core ///" fans as advertised and sold by Joe Dobrowolski of Apple Users Group International. r original boxes with manuals. We have lots of Pascal manuals for those interested and even a CP/M card or two. I also have one more /// Fan available if anyone is interested. You'll need some hardware to install it, though. It fits in the back of ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman SOFTWARE/HARDWARE IF you have a need for a specific program like Visicalc, AppleWriter, etc. please let me know. We have many donated programs that are still in theiust have a modem eliminator. Note that 25 pin cables and modem eliminators are available by mail order or from Radio Shack and most computer stores. ator. If you have had a special serial cable built for your printer (or plotter), you also would not use the modem eliminator. However, if you want to use a standard RS-232 25 pin cable to hook your serial printer to your built-in serial port, then you me pin outs is necessary, because the printer and the A/// both send info out the 2 pin and receive thru the 3 pin. For more info on the Serial port, see page 131 of your owners manual. To use your serial port with a modem you do Not use the modem eliminer to work properly? Our friends at ATUNC, the Apple Three Users of Northern California have the answer: A modem eliminator basically reverses pins 2 and 3 in the RS-232 cable. This is necessary for your Serial Printer to work properly. Reversing thile in any way. Thus, with On Three's Desktop Manager or with Powerkeys, you can capture text easily from one file to paste into the file you're already working with. FINALLY .... Ever wonder why you need a modem eliminator for your Serial printn read the file without loading it. Use and "7" on the keypad to stop the scroll and start it again. Once you do this, it won't stop until finished. This trick works even if you have another file already loaded. It will not harm that fable by mail order or from Radio Shack and most computer stores. Now type in the pathname of the file you want to read. But before pressing add a " " to the end of the pathname like this: [L]oad .D2/myfile . Now press and you cat some of the best articles published about the /// onto disk for all to enjoy. This is something every member can work on in a free moment or two. If everyone helps with just one article, we'll have lots of new PD disks - and ensure the legacy of our /// lives on. STEMWRITER AND THE /// Our good friend from Detroit, Paul Campell, has been trying his hand at getting Stemwriter to work properly on the ///. His experiences were reflected in some of his comments recently on the TCS: John Lomaoystick) is on side one of the disk. The actual program is on side two. Upgrades/enhancements welcome! Disk 3GRX-43 is our long promised disk of Summer Olympics graphics. Self-booting, the disk includes everything from fencing to swimming, running tl advise if there's an upgrade. DISK NOTES We have two disks to offer this month, /// SIGERS: Disk 3GRX-42 is ///D Graphics, a neat little Basic graphics program contributed by Martin Davidson. Information about the program (which requires a jou already know that this would kill my Spinwriter if I used it to print the sign instead of my dot matrix!! Dr. Bloom has offered (with enough interest) to "option the (program) to print a single character instead of the character-per-letter." We'le AppleWriter to replace all the characters with the "@" symbol. The only reason for this is because different letters have different body weights ("L"s are much lighter than "M"s), having all the same character makes the banner look more even. Of course yizes. SIGN uses an improved character set drawn from a maiframe poster utility. Paul Campbell (who should be writing the column this month!) says he has found that: In order to improve the appearance of the banner, I usually spool it to disk then usy not last for 12 hours a day in a busy office... IMPROVING "SIGN" Dr. Al Bloom's SIGN program (3GRX-29) is one of our more popular programs. It is an upgraded version of POSTER (3GRX-18) which can produce typewriter-style posters in various svered. Although it seemed to work fine as did most of the others in that batch, I got a phone call after about 3 hours. After a new motherboard and memory he was back in business, but I learned my lesson; what runs fine for a few minutes in my basement mars (and put through at least 1,000 test cycles). It's better for them to wait and get a solid system, rather than sell them one as soon as they come in. There was one Apple /// that the new owner could not wait for, so I gave him one that was recently deli But he warns that it's important to make sure SARA works before shipping her off: The renewed interest in SARA has caught a few folks off guard. I usually have someone waiting for a /// before I get a chance to go through and do any adjustments or repai to wait for the Apple version (despite the cost). More on this as it becomes available. TEST TEST TEST Paul Campbell does much of his own repair and testing for the machines he sells to clients (he listed nearly 10 on the TCS just in June alone).y to send/lend to Bob? We would be willing to buy a part "ownership" Anyone else Interested? I wonder if this includes the 1.4 drive Applied Engineering now offers for the // family? Iv'e heard it has some problems, tho and feel it would be betters/will release a 1.4 drive (for the //e and gs). Bob is willing to try to write a /// driver for same. But he's a poor starving student and not rich enough to indulge these enterprises on his own anymore. Anyone want to furnish a new Apple 1/4 meg floppm out this weekend. ON THREE NEWS This comes by way of Dave Jernigan, who reports that: I asked On Three's Bob Consorti about a 1.4 meg 3.5 drive for the beloved Sara. He has heard a rumor Apple (object of love, hate. scorn, derision) Inc. hartire responded to my call for help with setting up StemWriter's printer attributes. It seems he DEFINETLY knows what's going on. John says that I was on the right track but had made a mistake,.. he posted step-by-step instructions so I'll have to try theo boxing. Check it out. FINALLY I want to again say "thank you" to Nancy Sefarian for loaning us the clip art from which we've been able to make many of our graphics disks (they are all public domain). ilable. TEST TEST TEST Paul Campbell does much of his own repair and testing for the machines he sells to clients (he listed nearly 10 on the TCS just in June alone). But he warns that it's important to make sure SARA works before shipping her off: The renewed interest in SARA has caught a fd out how things were going. What I found out was that The Lisa Shop is now the R&D division of a company called Sleepy Hollow Corporation, with Frank the CEO who owns 51% of the stock. Even more importantly, Frank reports his 10 person company re ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman LISA SHOP In mid July, I had a long talk with Frank Freeman of the Lisa Shop. I've talked about him before in previous Trail columns and thought it was time to finwe've been able to make many of our graphics disks (they are all public domain). long promised disk of Summer Olympics graphics. Self-booting, the disk includes everything from fencing to swimming, running to boxing. Check it out. FINALLY I want to again say "thank you" to Nancy Sefarian for loaning us the clip art from which Graphics, a neat little Basic graphics program contributed by Martin Davidson. Information about the program (which requires a joystick) is on side one of the disk. The actual program is on side two. Upgrades/enhancements welcome! Disk 3GRX-43 is our offered (with enough interest) to "option the (program) to print a single character instead of the character-per-letter." We'll advise if there's an upgrade. DISK NOTES We have two disks to offer this month, /// SIGERS: Disk 3GRX-42 is ///D erent body weights ("L"s are much lighter than "M"s), having all the same character makes the banner look more even. Of course you already know that this would kill my Spinwriter if I used it to print the sign instead of my dot matrix!! Dr. Bloom hasolumn this month!) says he has found that: In order to improve the appearance of the banner, I usually spool it to disk then use AppleWriter to replace all the characters with the "@" symbol. The only reason for this is because different letters have diffur more popular programs. It is an upgraded version of POSTER (3GRX-18) which can produce typewriter-style posters in various sizes. SIGN uses an improved character set drawn from a maiframe poster utility. Paul Campbell (who should be writing the c new motherboard and memory he was back in business, but I learned my lesson; what runs fine for a few minutes in my basement may not last for 12 hours a day in a busy office... IMPROVING "SIGN" Dr. Al Bloom's SIGN program (3GRX-29) is one of oas soon as they come in. There was one Apple /// that the new owner could not wait for, so I gave him one that was recently delivered. Although it seemed to work fine as did most of the others in that batch, I got a phone call after about 3 hours. After aew folks off guard. I usually have someone waiting for a /// before I get a chance to go through and do any adjustments or repairs (and put through at least 1,000 test cycles). It's better for them to wait and get a solid system, rather than sell them one mains strongly committed to the Apple /// and Lisa, while expanding their repair efforts to other Apple platforms (fancy talk for the Mac and some Apple //s). This all happened at the end of last year. Another division of Sleepy Hollow, called TLS surprise his Apple /// fans. In mid July, he announced a new Apple /// product and the promise of another that's been long-awaited by the /// Community. Here's what Bob had to say on CompuServe: Yes, believe it or not I'm still creating new prod directly, call 1-718-746-8220. The product is an upgrade to software originally released by Sun Remarketing and has been licensed to DaFax. ON THREE'S NEW PRODUCT Miracles continue to happen, and Bob Consorti of On Three continues to please andorks - MacWorks+ - could be out even as you read this. As mentioned in a previous column, MacWorks+ is being released by a company called DaFax Processing. It's owner is Sam Nuelinger. For product information call 1-800-323-1751. To talk with NuelingerBox 969; Woodland, CA. 95695. Their phone number is (916)-668-5637. One last note: Sleepy Hollow has some 10 Apple ///s for sale. Give Frank Freeman a call at the number above if you're interested. OTHER LISA NEWS A new version of MacW him better understand how the /// was put together and how our SARA works. You can help now by writing to Sleepy Hollow and encouraging the company to keep up its efforts on behalf of our orphan machines. Its address is: Sleepy Hollow Corp.; PO Lisa and additional enhancements. Freeman says his primary goal is to make these machines continue to be useful for many years to come. Interestingly, he also says that since the Lisa was based heavily on the ///, working with the Lisa has helpeds additional memory, etc. The other problem is money, though Freeman seemed pretty sure his company would financially be able to move forward on these projects by the start of the new year. He's also talking about a new mother board for theeat but, but there are still some ifs in here. For one, Freeman needs to get ahold of the source code to SOS. He also needs some other source code listings. Those listings are needed to allow the new /// to search for a boot disk other than a 5.25, accesherboard would switch out with the current mother board or could be used in a plain jane- style PC box. To help with all this, Freeman says plans include hiring a programmer in 1993 to do nothing but write in Apple /// assembly language. Sounds gr5.25 internal drive all ///s currently have. It could also include a newly designed mother board for the /// that would be based on a Motorola 68030 chip and would allow you to run your computer in /// emulation mode or as a UNIX work station. The new motP! And here's even better news. Freeman reports that by the beginning of next year, he hopes to begin moving some of his Apple /// and Lisa projects off the drawing board and into production. That includes a 3.5 disk drive that would replace the duals. But here's the good news. Sleepy Hollow will send WAP a 10% rebate for all repairs done for members. All members have to do is send in a photocopy of their WAP membership card (to prove membership). This is a great deal for our members and for WAls can also do this, but on the retail level (that is - at a higher price). For example, a dealer would pay $75.00 to exchange a Mac+ power supply for a working one. As an individual, you'd pay $150.00. Again, it's wholesale to dealers, retail to indivi Services works with dealers at the wholesale level to provide repair services. That runs from the Apple /// to the Mac FX machines. Dealers can call if they need a repair. They send the broken part and get a working part in exchange. Individuaucts for the venerable old Apple ///. My latest creation is called "Disk-Directory-File Fixer ///" or DDFF3 for short. DDFF3 was designed to repair corrupted directories/files and is written in assembly language for blindingly fast speeds. There are six powerful program options: Test Disk Volume will scan the selected disk for directory and file errors and provide a detailed report of all problems on the disk. Repair Disk Volume will scan the selected disk and repair any directory and file errors it enn arrow on the jobs that I want to re-print, and press return. NEW FONT And on another f(r)ont, Paul has uploaded to our TCS file area a new font he calls NEW.FONT. You'll need XMODEM to download it properly for use and make sure it's of the proes. The reason for the suffix is: (1) It allows System Utilities to recognize only the files specified for output to the printers. (2) It allows me to keep track of what has been printed. (3) It makes re-prints a piece of cake! For example, I just click at is spooled to disk, I always add a ".o" suffix to the filename. When I feel like printing, I hit the macro which opens System Uilities, prints everything with the ".o" suffix, then changes the suffix on everything printed to ".x" and exits System Utiliti.. BATCH PRINTING Paul Campbell added some meat recently to his comments last month about batch printing using a filename suffix: I have been using some new batch printing methods which make it a "one key" operation. Now, when a report or documenom one HD volume to another for simple testing and access to floppies is even faster. If I can get everything working the way I want it in restores it will be even faster restoring (much!) than it is in backing up in comparison with Backup ///. MORE ON..ory (clear backup bit) ---------------- 23:13 total time Go Back /// ----------- 0:06 to construct Table Of Contents 9:04 to backup 1:12 to verify 0:07 to update directory (clear backup bit) ---------------- 11:07 total time These timings were done fry differently but the sample times for a backup are listed below: Backup times: 676 files from .PROFILE (20480 blocks) to .BACKUP (8704 blocks) Backup /// ---------- 1:41 to construct Table Of Contents 2:30 to verify 14:32 to backup 4:30 to update direct9.95. On Three's Bob Consorti told me in mid July that: Go Back should be ready within days now. Everything and I mean everything is done except restores which I'm working on now. It's difficult to compare it and Backup /// because they do things slightlort that DDFF3 is available now from On Three. Cost is $49.95. Call 1-805-822-8580 to order. GO BACK UPDATE The long-anticipated Go Back utility program, a replacement for Backup ///, should also be ready by the time you read this. Cost is $6fast - 29 seconds to test a 10 megabyte hard disk, 36 seconds to repair over 400 problems from the same 10 megabyte hard disk. It's a really cool program that every Apple /// owner should have - even if you don't have a hard disk. I'm happy to repm intentional recovery. File Verify/Repair attempts to read the file(s) that you select and if they happen to contain a bad block the program will swap the bad block for a good one, repairing a previously unusable file automatically. DDFF3 is very, very ile containing the bad blocks on the disk, allowing you to continue using the disk. Disk Wipe fills every non-used (free) block on the selected disk with a pattern that completely erases any previously deleted file, making your files absolutely secure froed in subdirectories will be recovered. Bad Block Scan/Repair will scan the selected disk and repair any bad blocks that it finds. Note that this is a much improved version of our earlier "Bad Block Fixer" program. This option will create a BAD.BLOCKS fcounters. Main Directory Repair is used when your main directory is overwritten and you can't access your disk. It will scan the selected disk and create a new main directory and fill it with any subdirectories that it finds on the disk. All files locatper FONT filetype. Paul says: It ... looks a lot better than the standard one for most applications. I made it mainly for EZP and you may notice a few things concerning that. First of all, I love toggling between the two cursors, but the insert cursor is tough to find some times, so the underscore character was thickened. This ... improves the appearance of EZP menus and desk accessories. To use within EZP, copy the font to replace the standard character set on your EZP boot disk with the same name as more. Hope to see you then! FINALLY Bill Arnold on Compuserve observed that: I read in a computer column recently that our ///'s are considered good bets for vintage PC collections. Also on the list was the SOL-20, Osborne I and Exidy Sorcere have a September meeting at the Pi office. Put 10am September 12th (a Saturday) down on your appointment book. We'll have access to the large tutorial room this time. There will be more demonstrations, more free software, questions and answers and lotswould be via an async port on the 36 with a protocol convertor, using the Access /// terminal program in DEC VT100 mode. This way, you could still use the /// as a stand-alone PC, and as a dumb terminal on your 36. MEETING QUE As promised, we'llable (even second hand). I checked with Sun, and they said they haven't seen the 3270 controller for some time. As usual, it was ///'s Company Guru Ed Gooding who had the answer: About the only way you could connect a /// to a S/36 at this time be able to place a /// as a terminal in a system 36 network, but don't know where to begin. I read something a while ago about a 3270 controller for the ///, but don't know if it would do the job or if it (or something else that could work) is still avail give him a call at (415)-821-9281. NETWORKING ON THE /// That was the question recently on CompuServe's Micronetworked Apple User Group Apple /// forum. Mike Pavelski asked: Can an Apple /// be put on a mini computer network? I would like to E ATUNC NEWS Tom Linders continues to offer Apple ///s and Profiles at $50.00 each. Wayne Schotten, another ATUNCO, has a ton of hardware, software and manuals. If you're looking for something (after calling me about the excess software we have) end and an AMP 36 pin Centronics 36 pin on the other end. My little cable is ten bucks, the IBM is five bucks, and so for about fifteen bucks, give or take, you have a parallel cable, in any length you want. Interested? Call Tom at (408)-741-1001. MOR Trail columns, he reports that: For the UPIC cable, I have short 20 pin Molex type cables with a polarizing notch on one side, on one end, and an IBM parallel DB 25 on the other end. This Cable mates with the IBM parallel cable, which has a DB 25 on onetomFont checks the built-in drive first... why waste time? PARALLEL CABLES Our good friend Tom Linders says in the latest ATUNC newsletter that he can put together Parallel cables for anyone needing them. In answer to some questions if previousogram still hunts around your drives. Although CustomFont eventually finds the Swenson font file, I have found it better to copy the font file to my Selector /// boot disk and rename the disk "CFONTB". Selector does not care about the change, and since Cusht have been easier to use CustomFont from the WAP library. A note about CustomFont; this software looks for it's own font file (called Swenson) on the boot disk. There are instructions on how to have it locate this font file on your hard drive, but the pry a few seconds between character set changes (I have a macro to change fonts with a single keypress). Apple Writer will let you change character sets if the file name has the correct suffix. This font was created with the Graphics Wizard, but it migthe old font. I launch all my applications under Selector /// which allows you to specify different character sets. For EZP, I tell Selector /// to use ".Profile/EZPFONT" and copy any fontfile wanted to that name. With the system set up this way, it is onlr. Well I've got three of the four. Why did I give my Exidy away? did I give my Exidy away? ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman 1.4 MB SUPERDRIVE PROJECT Those of you who get up on the TCS know that Dave and Joan Jernigan have been spearheading efforts to get a driver written for the new 1.4//, a tremendous time savings - and you can be assured that your data is secure. I've run Go Back through tests that make Backup /// turn belly up and moan in agony and Go Back has come through with flying colors. The backup/restore options are complete athe end of the backup (clear backup bits) and Go Back did it in 7 seconds. Actual backup time to disk in Go Back took about 2/3rds of the time Backup /// did (9:42 vs 14:32). On average a backup with Go Back takes less than half the time as with Backup /truly to be as fast as can be. An example of Go Back's superior speed is in a comparison with Backup ///. On a 676 file backup it took Backup // 1:41 to create the table of contents and Go Back 6 seconds. Backup /// took 4:30 to update the directory at alse sense of security because the backups it makes are usually bad and you don't know until you try to do a restore and get the infamous "Internal Program Error" message. Go Back /// is written entirely in assembly language & has been optimized by yours dy with for quite a while. Many long days and nights later it's completed. Go Back is the one program that every Apple /// owner with a hard disk MUST have. As many of you are painfully aware, Apple's backup program (Backup ///) is slow and gives you a fuServe, Bob Consorti had some additional information about the program that I'd like to pass along to you now: Go Back /// is finally ready. After several years of procrastinating, a month ago I started in on the Go Back program I've been teasing everybo This will be a primary topic at our SIG meeting September 12th, so watch this column next month for an update. MORE ON GO BACK As I mentioned last month, On Three's new Go Back backup utility is now available. Recently on CompAccording to the Jernigans: Once we know for sure the thing works on the three, we'll get the word out. At that point, we can furnish the donated funds towards a drive and controller card for the club or redistribute the donations back to the donors. ve and interface card. So with the help of WAP President Loren Evans, we've managed to procure a card and drive at prices that won't break the bank. Some members have contributed funds towards the project and your SIG contributed $100.00. to buy one for each. We'll be writing reviews on several machines with the 1.4 once we get it into our hands (anyone want to volunteer to do one for the Mac?). The only hitch to all this was that for Bob to write that driver, he needed the actual dris and they enlisted On Three's Bob Consorti to write the driver. As they recently indicated on the TCS: Backing up with a 1.4 meg drive has to be a lot more fun than 5 1/4 or even 800K. Bob says the card will transfer between machines if you don't want MB Superdrive that was recently released for the //e and gs. It's the same drive that Mac folks have and are able to use to read and write Mac, ProDos/SOS, MSDos and other formats. Dave and Joan primarily want to use the drive for backup purposend very powerful and I think you'll like my new file selector (like the one in DDFF3) as you can select any combination of files anywhere on your disk at once. You can backup files in any subdirectory at once - just pick and choose which ones you want. Combined with the directory/file optimizer that's built into the restore portion of the program Go Back will make backing up something you want to do! There's a new procedure for ordering from On Three that I was made aware of after completing last ON THE TRAIL OF THE APPLE /// By David Ottalini Apple /// SIG Co-Chairman MEETING REPORT Once again we had a good turnout of SARAsaurs for our meeting in September. Paul Campbell brought his /// system again (not to mention his wife and twol see you next month. month. Ms. Dodds would be interested in joining WAP.... FINALLY I continue my quest for hard-to-find Apple /// software. If you have something interesting that you think ought to be in our PD, give me a yell. Otherwise, have a happy Halloween and we'l512k Apple /// with 20 Meg hard drive, Slectr ///, EZP, and Word Juggler. She joins a long list of VFP's who owned ///s at one time or another including columnist George Will, Pete Rose, writer Rob Swigart, and musician Herbie Hancock. Wonder if or/Musician/Composer/Playwright Elrea Dodds has decided to purchase a computer system. Her works have been accepted internationally and also performed locally here in Detroit at such places as the Paul Robeson Theatre and Orchestra Hall. She has ordered a acros that converted the old banners without any regrets. /// USERS Ever the one to throw names around, Paul also announced recently that another Very Famous Person has decided to become a SARAsaur: Thought that I would mention this; Authon the TCS: The new version of Sign is on my hard drive right now. It works so well that it should be hanging in an art gallery somewhere. Every feature that I wanted has been perfectly incorporated in this new version. I went ahead and deleted my m would also assume this would work with the older 400K drives, which you can also purchase very cheaply these days... NEW SIGN Paul Campbell is throwing kudos to Dr. Al Bloom's update of his SIGN program (3GRX.29) and had these comments recently well (the card has two ports, which the On Three driver calls .U1 and .U2). Bob Consorti says later versions of the Laser card may not support the 5.25 inch drive, but it's worth a try since Apple // drives are plentiful and cheap, as are clones. Id and driver. But I wondered if it would work with the Laser card and Laser-brand 800K drive (which are fairly inexpensive). The answer is a resounding yes. In fact, I discovered that you can also run an Apple // 5.25 drive off that Laser card as e /// projects. EXPERIMENTS I'm always trying to find out if we can push our ///s a little bit here or there and recently discovered something you may well find interesting. On Three has a driver for the Central Point Software 800K interface car way, why does Bob continue supporting our /// after so many years? He put it this way... I like being a big fish in a small pond and Apple /// folks have treated me very well over the years, that's the reason I spent the hours finishing my last two Applmonth's column. Send your order by mail to: On Three c/o Joe Consorti 1174 Hickory Ave. Tehachapi, Ca. 93561 We're also being asked to make checks out directly to Joe Consorti instead of On Three. The price for Go Back is $69.00. By the kids!) and we had a great time giving Bob Consorti's Disk Directory/File Fixer /// a runthrough. It found and fixed all kinds of problems in Paul's Sider hard disk. The program is great because it can be used to check ANY disk you wish, from .D1 to .U1 Electric Pencil files from my SOL-20 to AppleWriter ///. I just had capture text turned on on the Apple ///. I have transfered files that way a number of times since. I recently transfered a ton of Three Easy Pieces / Appleworks files for a relative. Hnications Manager that will transfer the files for you. On the PC side you will need ANY communications program to receive the files. MAUGer Bill Arnold added his thoughts to the discussion: Years ago when my /// was brand new I transfered all myisk. If you don't have a Mac or a 3.5" drive for your /// you will have to either directly connect the Apple /// and PC via the ///'s RS-232 port and the Mac's comm port or through two modems. Next on the Apple /// end you'll need a package like my Commu5" drive on your Apple /// simply copy the files to the 3.5" disk. Take them to a Mac with a SuperDrive and use Apple File exchange or the newer ProDOS init that will also recognize the Apple /// SOS disks. Use the Finder to copy the files to an MS-DOS dS-Dos. Does anyone out there know a simple method for this? Please reply as soon as possible. As you might expect, the answers WERE quick. This one from On Three's Bob Consorti: There are two ways. If you had an 800K 3.might guess, a hot topic these days is how to transfer data from our Apple /// to another computer. Just such a question was asked on CompuServe recently: I have an Apple /// and a whole lot of Apple Writer /// text files that I want to convert over to Mthat it can be used to develop a new Apple /// PD Disk (hard copy) catalog. As I can, I'll also update these disks with the new Menu.Maker and associated files so that the programs are "modernized" as much as possible. TRANSFERING FILES As you rks, a new disk speed test utility, another Pascal contributions disk and even more Dr. Al Bloom disks. I'm also starting to work on a project for John Ruffatto to put all the Read Me (or similar) files from our PD disks onto one 800k disk, so rojects these past couple of months but have nothing to report at the present time for you (vacations and kids always seem to get in the way...). Along with the disks mentioned above, I can promise you a couple of new telecommunication disks are in the wohe earliest word processors for the ///. Please note that we do NOT plan another meeting until early next year at this point. Watch this column next months for details. PUBLIC DOMAIN DISK REPORT I've been working on a number of PD disk poffering for you. Beyond that, Paul donated a couple of excellent programs that will also soon be finding their way into our PD. Both are word processing programs, including the powerful StemWriter program from Australia and Write On! ///, one of ts. One project that I asked everyone to take on was to transcribe a portion of the System Utilities Tutorial book that Apple put out with it's "System Utilities, An Introduction" package. Once all the pieces are put together, I'll have another PD to .Profile. This meeting was a little less structured that the last one in the sense that we all just kind of worked our way through demonstrations, questions and fellowship. Then we adjourned for an excellent Thai lunch to continue our discussione needed the final files in MSDOS Word Perfect 5.0 format. It went very smoothly. My Apple //e is attached to my Macintosh with an Appletalk //e card. Copied all the files to the Mac's hard disk using 7.0 filesharing. Then the translation with ClarisWorks. ClarisWorks lets you import the Appleworks file then save it out as WP DOS 5.0. Then just used Apple File Exchange to copy the converted files to a 3.5 MSDOS disk. I think people get confused at times. Just for the record you do NOT need a SuperDriving places for it all! I've seen more Apple ///s and software on the market again recently and there's also been a good selection at the recent Garage Sales. So keep your eyes open. You never know what you might find. You can NEVER have enough entire stock- three systems (including two Profiles, a 10 meg Corvus, an Epson printer, and several boxes of software and manuals) and a lot of interesting odds and ends. I now have several things that I've never had before, and the only problem is findyes WIDE open when he took advantage of a great Apple /// sale recently: I visited Mr. Griffin and Mr. Crossley this weekend looking for a Profile and color monitor but they made me an offer I couldn't refuse and I drove back to West Virginia with their RA's then I think it's worth the effort. What do you say??? STEVE TRUAX HITS THE JACKPOT What is that old saying, "If you keep your eyes open, someone will sell an Apple ///?" OK... so it's not an OLD saying but /// SIGer Steve Truax had his eu might have. PLEASE let me know what you are interested in. Frankly, the only way we will be able to get new software for our /// in the future will be to contract for it. IF it can help us to continue getting some additional use out of our SAa driver for the Quickie Scanner, and adapt either Draw On Three or Graphics Manager to accept graphics scanned from the Quickie. If the price is reasonable, I think this may well be another project we can persue. Any other ideas? I'm very open to any yod this, we'll really have some good news about the driver. I want to thank the Jernigans for really pushing this project and our esteemed President, Loren Evans, for helping us. Looking ahead, I've asked Bob Consorti what it would take to write data from Apple and Apple has not been forthcoming (what else is new). I'm hoping Lorin's contact can get Bob the info he needs. Once Bob gets the "real"1.4 meg drive from us/Apple, he'll continue development. I hope that by the time you rea report some progress with our Superdrive Driver project. In mid September, Dave Jernigan reported that: Bob Consorti has the new (Apple // controller) card working on the /// in the 800k drive mode but is not happy with the speed. He needs Techave imbedded AW commands for print formatting, etc. you would be better off to remove them before the transfer, also. You can set up a WPL program to scan each file for .LM's, etc. and remove them automatically. SUPERDRIVE PROJECT I'm happy toore you do your transfers by doing a global scan and replace: CONTROL-F <><>CONTROL-J