LnSOS BOOT 1.1 SOS.KERNEL SOS KRNLI/O ERRORFILE 'SOS.KERNEL' NOT FOUND%INVALID KERNEL FILE: xةw,@  ȱlmi8#)!)HARDWARE.MISCvƶ7' '.BARCODE.READER ƶ7.CLOCK.MAKE.OWNQƶ7,SERIAL.CABLE3 ƶ7/SIDER.HARD.DISK:Lƶ7`ƶ: MISC.A3.INFOƶ SEG.T>>III.INF.08u' DISKNAME.DAT!Ŷ6EZPIECESƶ4ƶ4HARDWARE.MISCƶ7 HOW.I.USE.A3>ƶ8 MAC.IMITATIONrƶ9 MICROSCI.DRIVE >dLԡm#i㰼m#iЕOLԡȱfg hi !dLԡ憦  Ljmkm l y`2 Lԡ8(Je稽)ʈ@LAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 3 NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 1986 Letter 2 Dear Bill: I've been paging through back issues (screens!?) of the ATUNC newsletter, and finding interesting hints, fascinating ideas and so on. Now, "all" I need is a1ly they have filed Chapter 7 and thus their stuff is no longer available. The following is a blurb from the Three's Company Bulletin Board from Virginia. "To install a clock, especially if you are short of cash, is to call, write, or visit Jameco Elect APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 3 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1986 WHERE TO FIND CLOCK KITS FOR YOUR APPLE /// In earlier issues of the Newsletter we stated that you could get inexpensive clock chips at RAC computers in San Jose. Unfortunate Definately an interesting piece of equipment and I have seen something like it being used. Sounds like we need some sort of driver written so I'll throw your idea out to the membership. Anyone got ideas? user group, might have a bit of leverage with Cauzin for cooperation. I'll be trying the equipment shortly, and I'll keep you posted on what happens in emulation mode. (I've also got a Titan /// plus //e card). - Mariann Jelinek, Ohio Dear Mariann: mpetent to do it. But it sure would be fun to instigate. Whose ear can you put a hint into? Who might be interested in trying to write something to use this system in native /// mode? Seems to me that ATUNC's got talent galore for such a task, and as a natural constituency, for trading between machines, ease of transfer between systems and the like: real problems for an orphan machine. Unfortunately, I'm a user, not a hacker; haven't written a program in years, and then it was FORTRAN. So I'm not cofar away??? It sounds as if Cauzin has a method for reading data files at least, and likely some more, between systems; that alone, for secretaries' reliance on Big Blue for word processing, would be a boon. Seems to me that Apple /// users would be asumably, since their engineers say there's no reason it can't be hooked to an Apple ///, it'll do it in emulation mode. (I'm going to try, but haven't as yet.) I wonder about getting an Apple /// version of the software. If it works in PRODOS, can SOS be doubt seen advertised, will read and print in sort of reduced bar-code form, and is relatively tolerant of wrinkles, coffee, etc and impervious to magnetic waves, etc. Moreover, with proper software, you can read and write between computer systems. Pre few months to explore and play and try out. Cauzin Systems (835 South Main St., Waterbury, CT 06706 Tel (203) 573-0150) has a softstrip system reader and software for the Apple ][ for sale, for $180 plus a $20 accessory kit. The system,which you've no ronics (or any electronics store that sells their Jim-Paks) at 1355 Shoreway Road, Belmont, CA 94002, (415) 592-8097 and order part # MM58167AN, 24 pin microprocessor real time clock chip for $8.95. This simply plugs into the only empty chip socket on ystem isn't having the same problem, let me know, but so far I've tried this on three different Apple /// machines and the result is always the same. By the way, I'll also show you a solution to the problem so you can avoid the difficulty. First, let'APPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 4 NUMBER 9 3EZP BUG REPORT: Here's another way to encounter a system failure in a 3EZP operation. There aren't many bugs in this brilliant program, but every now and then something turns up. In case your sd the WP file (it is a Pascal Text File) with SA 1 utilities, but it does not strip out the various control codes that 3EZPieces uses. ON THREE is promising a spelling checker for 3EZPieces as a utility for their yet-to-be released Desktop Manager. WAP /spelling in a whole document, but it also has Word Guess. Word Guess is activated by typing Closed Apple 8 and will check the spelling of a single word and insert the correct word in your document from a list of possibilities. Word Juggler 2.6.4 will reaires printing the 3EZPieces WP file to disk as an ASCII file. Then reading it into the appropriate spelling checker. Rather than go to this trouble it would be easier (and faster) to use Word Juggler and Lexicheck. Lexicheck will not only check your VOL. 2 NO. 12 DECEMBER, 1985 Q6. What can be used as a Spelling Checker with 3EZPieces? A6. Currently there is not a Spelling Checker that works directly with 3EZPieces. However, it can be done with AppleSpeller /// or Lexicheck, but this requ]ƶ66/EZP.WORD.JUGGLR/)ƶ6"EZPIECESvƶ4' '/EZP.ROWS.INVERS",EZP.SPELLCHKƶ5/EZP.SYS.FAIL.06 ƶ5,EZP.TEMPLATE!qƶ5 -EZP.TEMPLATES&gƶ6!.EZP.W.CATALYST+THE BEST OF ATUNC BY ROBERT HOWE the motherboard of your ///. If you want to install a battery backup yourself, refer to the tutorial on how to do this in the file HARDWARE/MODS/BATTERY.BACKUP. (for some reason I didn't download this so I can't provide it. ed.). I have done both of ms see what you're trying to do (i.e., the "goal"). You want to take a spreadsheet program in 3EZP and print it as an ASCII file so you can move it to Word Juggler or some other program where you need to access your information as an ASCII file. Okay, may want to open up in 3EZP, make sure to use the asterisk (*) in front of the pathname when saving it to disk. This way you'll avoid getting end of line markers all over the place and have to delete them by hand. This can be particularly tedious if yowidth in the display mode, so you'll need to be careful if you wish to make changes to the document in native WJ word processing mode. Another trick with Word Juggler that you might have overlooked. If exporting a WJ file in ASCII format which you latern screen. Set the width adjustment to conform to what you had in 3EZP and now when you display the document you can use the left arrow to move across and confirm you have transferred all of your worksheet across. By the way, you can only see the full em failure should take place. Next quit 3EZP and boot up your other program - let's say it's Word Juggler. Load the file you want with an asterisk (*) in front of the path name telling WJ it's in ASCII format. Part of the spreadsheet should now appear oard." Hit return and your document should be on the screen. If you can't see all of it because of its width, rest assured it should still be there. Next, go ahead and select print this document as an ASCII file, giving it whatever name you want, No systboard. Now go back to the main menu and "add a new file" - select word processor. Give the new file a temporary name. Open it up and give it a matching width parameter to the one you had in your spreadsheet. Then hit OA "C" and select "copy from clipboo OA "O" and adjust the width accordingly. Obviously there is a limit to how wide a spreadsheet you can deal with in this manner. Now print to the clipboard. Unless the document is too large, you should see a confirming message that it is on the clip without a system failure. Instead of printing the file as an ASCII document, select from the menu print to "The Clipboard (for the Word Processor)." You might want to make sure you have the right width parameters built into your printing. If not, go tYou would still like to save the file on disk as an ASCII file, but how do you do it? Fortunately good old 3EZP almost always has a solution for you. The method I'm about to suggest will take an additional step, but you'll get to the right destinationble if you're about to do something new for the first time to a file, no matter how innocent the operation may seem. Okay, you were bright enough to have made a copy of that spreadsheet file, so after rebooting 3EZP, you can load it back and try again. STEM FAILURE" MESSAGE *** If you haven't made a copy of that spreadsheet first (most foolish, you'd agree), you now will have to do the job all over again. Need we add that the Golden Rule of computer use is to always make backup copies. This goes dou BY WAP COMPILER ON 4/91: THIS SYSTEM FAILURE IS CAUSED BY THE 3EZP SPREADSHEET HAVING BLANK CELLS IN THE SELECTED PRINT AREA. SIMPLY PUT A SINGLE SPACE (TEXT IN THE CELL) IN EACH OTHERWISE BLANK CELL BEFORE PRINTING TO DISK AND YOU WILL NOT GET THE "SYt looks like what you want. You select it and at the prompt as to where you want to print it, you respond with something like .d2/FILENAME. After hitting return you'll find your reward will be a System Failure, probably displaying the code 06. ***NOTEyou've finished your work on the spreadsheet. You hit OA "P" and after selecting how much of the spreadsheet you want to print (All, Block, Column, etc.) you hit return and get a menu with a series of choices - one of which is Print as ASCII file. Thaur moving an ASCII into a multiple field 3EZP database. It had taken me hours to clean up such files before I discovered what should have been obvious to me in the first place. - Barry Downes (New York member) VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 12, December 1988 CheckAids by W.R.Smith (408-736-1317) Some time ago I attempted to utilize the famous and well-liked 3-E-Z Pieces to design an acceptable sub-program to handle individual checking accounts. Most people spend a lot ofto-date/Annual Budget, taxable Income by Category, Tax Deduction by Category, and Specific Transactions. RMRG: FINANCIAL CALCULATOR ($29.95 prepaid) Lets you calculate Simple and Compound Interest, Loan Amortization Schedules, Present Value of a Future%'()es: Transaction number, Date, Source, Deposit or Disbursement Amount, Split Transaction, Miscellaneous Information, Income/Expense Category, Tax Deductible Status, Cleared Transaction. Reports include: Checkbook/Credit Card Reconciliation, Monthly/Year-VOLUME 3 NUMBER 4 APRIL 86 APPLICATION TEMPLATES FOR APPLEWORKS (can be used for 3 EZ Pieces) RMRG: ACCOUNTANT ($29.95 prepaid) Tracks cash, check and credit card transactions for home or small buisness. Information for each transaction includes containing this program are entitled as "CHECKAIDS", and are available in the ATUNC public domain library. ired, after suitably reviewing the two documentary files. When data have been entered and at the conclusion of the work session, the final result can be saved to another diskette or hard disk after being titled in a manner suitable to the user. DiskettLE.2 Type = 1B 5 21:53 3:455 6 files listed, 119 blocks available Notice that each file is locked, as is the diskette itself (or it's supposed to be!). Any of the last four files can be brought to the Desktop as des *CHKFORM Type = 1B 25 22:42 23:330 *ITEMIZE Type = 1B 103 22:37 101:145 *BNK.RECONCILE Type = 1B 5 21:53 3:347 *BNK.RECONCIwing is the complete directory: /CHECKAIDS File Type Blocks Modified Time Length *CHECKBOOK.DOC Type = 1A 11 21:20 9:73 *ITEMIZE.DOC Type = 1A 5 22:32 3:495 "#$ time trying to balance their checkbooks and end up frustrated. After some months of modification and practice, the end result is available now. It consists of a disk containing 4 files, to be used as formats and two other documentary files. The follo Payment, Present Value of an Annuity, Future Value of an Annuity (such as an IRA), Monthly Loan Payments, Treasury Security Yields, Bond Yields and others. RMRG: INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO ($29.95 prepaid) Summarizes stock, mutual fund, bond and CD holdings. It summarizes Security Name, Exchange, Date Bought/Sold, Number of Shares/Bonds, Buy/Sell price, Commission, Original and Current Value, Bond Yield, Gain/Loss, Dividend/Coupon Payments, Cappital Gain Status, and Original and Current Portfolio Value. .0 file as an ASCII text file. This will strip all the control codes from the file, except for "hard" carriage returns. To strip the control codes, save the WJ file using an * in front of the file name. For example, save with this filename *.D2/TEMP.FIL VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 1986 QUESTIONS Q1. When I load a Word Juggler file into 3 EZ Pieces word processor, it transfers text fine, but it comes with tons of "#" signs. Is there a way to avoid the trash. A1. Yes, you must save the Word Jugglero suit. I thought it was appropriate to have 3 EZ Pieces as the third program on the menu. LE/THREE.EP 8. Max files allowed open: 0 9. Program path: This does not correspond to the directions in the Catalyst manual, but it matches the instructions in the back of the 3 EZ Pieces manual. After this you can go and rearrange your Catalyst menu tm Program options: 1. Display name: Three EZ Pieces 2. Interp path: .PROFILE/THREE.EP/SOS.INTERP 3. Extra drivers: (whatever you dynamically load) 4. Character set path: DEFAULT 5. Screen: Normal 6. Keyboard path: DEFAULT 7. Initial prefix: .PROFIEG.ER, SEG.PR. These are all the files from the 3 EZ Pieces disks, except for the SOS.DRIVER and SOS.KERNAL. Then go into the Catalyst Editor and set up your options like: Catalyst Editor (version 2.0) Edit entry for progra*,-lly is in the Catalyst manual on page 2-14. 3EZ Pieces is not copy-protected so there is not real problem installing it. I created a new subdirectory called .profile/three.ep/ on my profile. In this subdirectory, I copied SEG.00, SOS.INTERP, SEG.MN, S VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 1986 Q3. How does one put 3 EZ Pieces on their hard disk under Catalyst? A3. 3 EZ Pieces does not have AutoInstall on the boot disk, so you must install it manually. The instructions for installing a Pascal program manua16 Arnold, Bozeman, MT 59715 (406) 586-1157. - From Apple /// News and Views Mar 86 gs (calculated), state and federal taxes, FICA (calculated), other deductions, net pay (calculated), and other reinbusements. Quarterly, year-to-date, and end-of-year totals are calculated. Available from: Rocky Mountain Research Group 4Information is easily added and reports printed. RMRG: PAYROLL ($39.95 prepaid) Tracks information for hourly, daily or monthly employees, including Pay Rate, regular/overtime hours or days worked, vacation/sick time taken, other earnings, gross earninE. Then when you "Create" a new Word Processing file in 3 EZP and load in .D2/TEMP.FILE, it will not have the # at the start of each line. The other method would be to Open Apple R(eplace) all the # with nothing. However on a long file, this replacem about $14. While this is not a large savings over having it built for about $40, it is getting harder to have one made. With the above information, you can have it made correctly. DRIVER CONFIGURATION The other item you must check before trying to run ooking ten wires to a total of nine pins. 1 --> 1 2 --> 3 3 --> 2 4 --> 8 5 --> 8 6 --> 20 7 --> 7 8 --> 4 & 5 20 --> 6 COST One can use either solderless connectors or soldered. I bought the parts to build my last cable fornnect the pins in the cable to make your own single cable, which replaces the modem eliminator and the RS232 cable. The notation that I am using is as follows. 1 --> 1 means connect pin 1 at one end of the cable to pin 1 at the other end. You will be h is the pin-outs that duplicate the modem eliminator. First you need two MALE DB-25 connectors (for the ends of your cable) and as a length of 10 conductor wire that will reach from your printer to your A///. CONSTRUCTION The following is the order to coowed one to hook up a serial printer to the A/// RS232 port (port C) with a standard RS232 cable. The later versions of the /// came without this cable. For those of you that do not have a modem eliminator and want to hook up a serial printer, followinghe wiring is different and the standard RS232 cable cannot be used. Below is an article reprinted from the March 1985 issue of our newsletter SERIAL PRINTER CABLE FOR AN APPLE /// MATERIALS The original A/// came with a "modem eliminator" cable which all I use with my modem? A1. The serial printer cable for the Apple /// has the same number of pins as a standard RS232 cable that you would use with a modem. However, with a modem the cable goes straight thru (pin 1 to pin 1, etc.), but with a printer t245678 the next meeting and present them there. If you have sent in a question and we have not answered it, we may have passed it on to someone else to answer and we will print it later. - Rod Whitten Q1. Can I use the same cable with my serial printer that APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 3 NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 1986 QUESTIONS The following are some of the questions we have recieved at the last meeting. If you have "better" answers or questions, please forward them to Bill Stone or come to and I'll be glad to answer them for you." - Ed Goodings Three's Company BBS ine this way and have had no problems whatsoever with either of them. I did this before the On Three deal, but I'd probably still do it this way since I like to tinker around with the machine. If you have any further questions, append them to this fileent operation can take several minutes. you Serial printer is that your .PRINTER SOS driver is configured to match the printer. Usually the printers come set at 1200 baud and 7 bit, odd parity. See your printer manual to see if this is the way your printers dip switches are set. Now check your .PRINTER driver to see if it is: 1) a serial printer driver, and 2) that the driver configuration block is set to 1200 baud and odd parity. The value for 1200 baud is 08 and for odd parity it is 22. Detailed instructions on how to set this in the driveAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 7, July 1988 How I Use My Apple /// by Barry Edward Downes, 212-799-7688 (Editor's Note) - In our September 1987 issue, Barry wrote the article "An Evaluation of Apple /// in Comparison to Apple Iƶ9->HOW.I.USE.A3vƶ8' '.HOW.I.USE.A3.3cƶ94>/HOW.I.USE.A3.BD@ ƶ8&>/HOW.I.USE.A3.BSF ƶ8(>/HOW.I.USE.A3.CKM ƶ8)>/HOW.I.USE.A3.CST ƶ9,>/HOW.I.USE.A3.GG_ Bethlehem, PA 18001 Phone: 1-800-538-1307 - PAT FORD f you are like me and want to see this excellent system for the Apple /// then write to FCP and let them know. Otherwise they will never support or farm out support for the /// market. Address: First Class Peripherals 2158 Avenue C CP is planning to release a 20 megabyte drive later this year for around $1000.00. The SIDER drives can be "daisy chained" like the /// drives to allow two to be controlled from one card. The 20 and 10 megabyte drives can be used in any combination. Icard, which is smaller than a UPIC card.) FCP feels there is not enough demand from /// users to justify writing the documentation. There may be some interest at FCP in farming out the /// market, such as to ON THREE. Other tidbits I pick up is that Ft no documentation has been written. Otherwise the SIDER is ready to go in a ///. (I read or heard somewhere that the control card is too large for the ///. This is not true. I got a good look at the card and it is no larger than a Apple //e 80 column Presently they have no plans to offer it to the /// market, because "there is no market." I spoke to Olen Whitson, one of the developers of the SIDER, and he said that all of the drivers for the /// have been written and Apple Inc has verified them, bu9;<=e Sider is a 10 Megabyte disk for the Apple ][ series, with control card, cable and software only $695.00. The Sider uses Xebec parts and there is a 15 day trial period. It has received rave reviews and was chosen by InCider as the "Editors' Choice" APPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL. 2 NO. 6 JUNE, 1985 Sider Hard Disk Drive May 18, 1985 I just came back form the San Francisco Apple Core meeting where the hard disk called the SIDER from First Class Peripherals was demonstrated. Thr are in the Standard Device Drivers Manual on pages 102 to 105. Instructions on how to changes your SOS drivers in on pages 2 to 18 of the same manual. I, Lazer 128, 512 MAC and the LISA (MAC XL)..." It was one of the most important articles that have ever been published on A///, and has been widely reprinted by many sister A/// newsletters. It is fair to say that article gave all A/// users new vigor a?ABCD computer to do 3 things: 1) Keep track of the records on the injured wildlife that was brought into the museum I worked at (this was after going through 6000 cards and tallying them) and getting names and address for solicitations. 2) Producing the 3 neEGHIJKe send in your contribution, describing your precious experiences, and let all of us share them. To simplify my work, please write your article on a disk, using 3-EZ-Pieces. Thank you. (L.K.S) Bill Stone: "How I Use My Apple///". I initially purchased a APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 3, March 1988 ?? HOW I USE MY APPLE /// ?? Starting this month, we shall carry a regular column of this title. This first short article is written by our beloved former editor Bill Stone. Pleasair bill did not help. Please take notice. Take a minute and turn the damn thing off before you decide to remove or insert cables or anything else from or into your computer. upidity. After all these years I got caught. I tried to remove a cable between the monitor and the A/// while the computer was still on. Not a good idea. It looks like static electricity did the baby in. Can not get any output to my monitor. A $90 repa variety of trained and untrained staff. Obviously if you need networking or main frame, this would not be the case. The 5th A/// is currently ailing. It's usually ready for backup needs. I may need to do a motherboard with Sun Data. The cause was st second is at my partner's home/office. She is also the producer of the Daytime Emmys. Our relationship is really not the reason why she's chosen the A///'s, but because they are indeed still easily the best computers to use in an office situation with t a better keyboard and a faster operating program than most of the other stuff. My other A///s are operating in the following ways: One is at my office (sharing duties with a MAC SE with 20 megs of internal memory and an external drive of 80 megs) and aen a lifesaver in timing more than 12 network specials to date. Principal programs used are 3EZP and Word Juggler. For the staff in the office (also experienced in IBM and other such computers) the A///s are like coming home. And home is where you gerds. All operations in that office are run off this generation of equipment. This includes letters, show rundowns, talent listings, seating plans, budgets, rehearsal schedules, and a highly sophisticated timing program (in 3EZP spreadsheet) that has bend confidence. Now, we are pleased to have Barry tell us his own story. It'll surely give us insight and wisdom. (LKS) My current usage of A///s is as follows: 2 of the 5 A///s I own are leased to the network television production of the Daytime Emmy Awawsletters I was doing at the time and keeping track of the mailing lists. 3) Start a database of my library of professional books and articles. Through the years I have had my Apple ///, I have been very happy with it and it has done the jobs I bought it for, especially when 3-EZ Pieces came out. (Editor's note) As you remember, Bill was our Newsletter Editor from the very beginning since November l984 to November l987. Single handedly, he edited, printed and mailed monthly this Newsletter for more thsor required a Qume Sprint 9/45. The latest book I was writing put a Profile to use. So it went. Used equipment was found easy and cheap. I can recommend it to anyone. I have two other CPU's and monitors to backup this system should repairs be requirekeyboard touch, more memory, an advanced operating system, and, in all, a professional machine. This guy got hooked! As the learning curve progressed, so did the system grow. The business accounting system required a 256K memory board, the word procesars ago, I had an Apple ][. But, being novice at the game, the frequent addition or change of boards, the switching of 40 or 80 character lines, all seemed most amateurish. Playing with the /// at Infomax one day, I felt I was working with a superior LNOPQRcious experiences, and let all of us share them. To simplify my work, please write your article on a disk, using 3-EZ-Pieces. Thank you. (L.K.S) Clyde Kirlin: HOW DOES A ONE MAN BUSINESS PUT APPLE /// TO USE? When Apple /// was first produced 5 or 6 yeVOLUME 5 NUMBERS 4, APRIL 1988 ?? HOW I USE MY APPLE /// ?? Starting from last month, we planned to carry a regular column of this title. This second masterpiece is done by Clyde B. Kirlin (934-0607). Please send in your contribution, describing your pretles. Our next computer should be the one Thom Hogan suggested and I reported in our Jan.88 issue, page 5. (L.K.S) ---------------------------------- t. Cheer up, friends. Use and love your A///. Tell a friend to buy a used A///, at $200, and join our ATUNC. Get all the softwares she needs from our public domain library at negligibly small cost. Stick to your A/// for l0 more years, until the dust setfrom this Newsletter you are reading right now, I feel most of the gimmicks, gadgets, and fancy named softwares now flooded the market are not necessary for the basic tasks a computer is supposed to perform, namely: word processing, database and spreadsheeor I were smart. It only shows DESKTOP Publishing is easy. Any A/// user with love can do it. It also shows A/// is indeed a good machine, easy, reliable, able and friendly. After doing this work alone since December, with modest success, as you can see had any budget deficit. Instead, we should have 3 trillion $$$ of surplus annually, to feed all the starving Africanos, with love. Bill taught me in one single lesson, how to edite this Newsletter. The result is what you see. This didn't mean either he an 3 years, without interruption, maintaining its high quality and decent style, using his own machines, stationeries and supplies, with all his love and wisdom, free of charge. If we had more people like him in our Federal Government, we should never d, so I doubt that I will ever go back to "square one" with another brand. Two Profiles later, each working from the single ///. Profile #1 is named "Profile", controls my programs through Catalyst and serves as excess file space. Manuscripts created monthly by this free-lance writer for 5 national boating magazines go into Profile #2 named "Filepro" while being worked on. Profile #3 awaits the future breakdown of #1 or #2. Final copies go onto diskettes and into the safe for permanent storage. Prwn Pascal, which I use to write programs that help me write other programs. Of course, I own the basic system software, including Backup ///, which I don't use due to the large volume of diskettes required, and the difficulty involved in recovering only ourned out to be the cheapest way to get a flight. (In all fairness, I could see how a business man that flies frequently on short notice might use such a service, but you still can't buy tickets by modem!) Surely I must own some software. Yes I do. I os. I read the documentation on OAG (Official Airline Guide) before trying. Well, after $6 in connect time, plus another $12 in premium fees (OAG costs extra!), I found out it didn't list any of the super-saver fares at all! The Navy's travel office still tn. Yes, I have a modem. But I don't use it for stock quotes or banking. The other day I had a fit of computer practicality. I thought I would get on CIS and get some flight information for my wife's return trip from vacationing in Oklahoma with the folk a beginner, like me. Thank you, Dale. (LKS) First of all, let me admit something: I don't use my computer for anything practical at all. No, I don't do my home finances on it. I don't do my taxes on it. Nor do I have a database for my stamp collectioSUVWXYZ[\]most beloved and treasured members of our Group. In this short article, he tells us how he uses his A///. It gives us great inspiration and insight. We see the big difference how the same old withered piano is handled by Franz Schubert, like Dale, or byAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 6, June 1988 How I use my Apple /// by Lt Charles (Dale) Sykora (Editor's Note) We all remember Dale is the inventor of Trackball and many other A/// products, and is one of the ke I know what I'm doing? NO, not at all! I feel that I have only gained 10% of the knowledge required to thoroughly know this fine machine. Why it was ever dropped by Apple, I will never know. s purposes - statistics, navigation, engineering, business forms - are done with Business Basic and Pascal. Further "fun and games" are played using Gameport or joystick Port B to read Morse code coming from an amateur radio receiver. Does this sound liata from the spreadsheet to Business Graphics and routed to the C.Itoh dot matrix printer. A Hayes Smartmodem connects me to the Dow Jones News Retrieval service for financial data at 300 or 1200 baud. For amusement, BASIC & Pascal programs for variourages, oscillators, stock and bond data, all done on Advanced Visicalc spreadsheets, as are the engineering calculations that are required for my work in marine electronics consulting projects. Any charts that are required may be done by transferring dofile #1 also contains the BPI General Ledger program for the business, for personal accounting and for a few selected outside accounts. The technical analysis of personal investing is monitored by self-created mathematical programs, such as moving avene file from backup. Oh yes, I own DrawOn ///, which I bought with the Graphics Tablet version, so I could get the Graphics Tablet Driver. I own Selector /// and Catalyst because I needed them to test my SOS.DRIVER Optimizer program to make sure it would work with them, but I still boot up directly into Pascal. I bought ///EZP a couple of months ago so I could get some data off the ThreeWorks disks that I also bought. I was looking for the bibliography section. Last month, I bought Script /// for $15 f^`antary on the people who promised everything and have given nothing to support this excellent machine. As a business decision, it was decided to forego the /// mode and run it in the //E mode for everything, since so much more is available at a much lowAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 9 September 1988 How I Use Apple /// to Manage Money by Gerald J. Glaser, 716-381-3340 In my opinion, the A/// is probably the best product that Apple Computer Co. ever made. It is a real sad commearts to keep it running. But I'm afraid it's a self- feeding hobby. In future issues, I'll write in about some of the hardware and software projects I'm working on or have finished. t these same subjects; and I breadboard projects like a hyperactive elf. In short, I don't do anything with or on my computer that I would have any need to do if I didn't own my computer. I love my ///. I don't intend to leave it as long as I can get pm sure I can write a program to do it. Why learn another program? I might have to read a manual or something. So what do I do? I write programs; I write letters to other ///'ers about programs and hardware I would like to work on; I tele-modem-ate abouw do I write all those letters anyway? I am of the opinion that there is no finer word processor than the Pascal Editor. It is easy for me to believe this because I won't try any other word processor. Hey, if I ever need subscripts or multiple fonts, I'ble anyway? Why not just re- invent the wheel and write it myself? Surely I must write correspondence on my computer. Going back over my letter files, however, I find all of them are related to the computer, programming, or hardware for the ///. Hoe numbers and addresses exist because of my computer. I use my modem and TCM to get on ///'s Company and CIS to talk about programming and modifying the ///. I write programs simply to make my next program easier. Why use something that's already availad only twice, I don't own or use any programs that cannot be launched from Pascal or DeskTop Manager. My SandMan is for my children, since it can be run from DTM. I use my computer almost exclusively for programming and hardware projects. Even my phons to add Help on this topic or to change the way I do a thing. I even have a phone list and address list, but all of these are of computer contacts that I wouldn't even know if I didn't have my A///. There is a trend here: Short of ///EZP, which I've usero Manager I use like a bandit, so I can punch a closed apple key and run my latest project, or get into the Pascal Filer and set up a new prefix. Note-Pad I also use tremendously, especially to note any bugs in my programs that need fixing, and reminderen to the /// since Pascal and the 512K expansion (which I have). Of course, I don't use any of the modules that might have a practical use (such as the Calendar, which I replaced with File View, so I could invoke it directly, using closed-apple2). Macrom Sun. After all, it was compatible with the Pascal editor, and the price was right. I have even used it twice. My major purchase has been DeskTop Manager and everything ever made for it. In my opinion, this has been the single greatest thing to happer cost. My Company has its own financial planning program, where we program assets, liabilities, cash flow and more, and then calculate for living, disability, and death estate numbers which are converted into possible programs for our clients. Inecome infatuated with the Apple /// in this short period of time. Its operating system is advanced. The sophistication of its device driver structure is superior to other computers. Most of my time on the /// is spent hacking. I have disassembled the P to the Apple /// world, having purchased it early last fall. I am also a recent member of ATUNC. I live in Houston, Texas. I had heard many negative stories about the Apple /// before I reluctantly purchased it. Now, I own one. I must confess: I've bl cost of card, driver and disk is $450. Cost of 5 meg Profile is only $600 from Sun Data. Wendy S. Coleman, M.D. 2115 Chadbourne Ave. Madison, WI 53705 (608-238-9258) How I Use My A///? by Kip Reiner (713-550-0568) I am newnt (I pay the express postage), and have talked me through replacing just about every part of my home machine at one time or another. Does anyone have a cheaper way to use the 800k 3 1/2" floppy and the Apple/// than that suggested by "On Three"? - totad PFS file. I've had both these machines for four years and have occasional problems with one of them mechanically. Sun Data has been very responsive when I needed replacement parts or equipment problems. They ship parts within 3 or 4 days if it is urge at home has a Titan board to emulate a 128K apple II for programs for my three children and for the accounting program, Dollars and Sense. I've played around with Advanced Visicalc and Versaform but find I can do everything I need with Word Juggler an one at work. They are configured differently. The machine at work has a profile (managed with Catalyst) and is used mostly for access to a large data base of patients (using PFS file). I do some writing at work but most of it is done at home. The machinebdefghijklmnopq send in your contribution, describing your precious experiences, and let all of us share them. To simplify my work, please write your article on a disk, using 3-EZ-Pieces. Thank you. (L.K.S) WENDY & HER 2 A///s I have two Apple ///'s - one at home andAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 5, May 1988 ?? HOW I USE MY APPLE /// ?? Starting from March, we carry a regular column of this title. The following 3 masterpieces are done by Wendy Coleman, Kip Reiner and Ralph Dennard. Please are giving. 2) a program to convert my A/// software to the IBM format. While I love my A///, I must be practical about the future. In conclusion, let me say that Apple Computer Co., in my judgement, does not deserve the support that our Group and others like it addition to this, we subscribe to several security type data programs and analyze everything we sell. My two main problems with the A/// are: (1) to find a hard disk drive for it at a price comparable to the inexpensive ones I see on the market, and (kaso printer driver, changed some of the control codes and reassembled it for my Panasonic printer. This exercise gave me some familiarization with the Pascal Editor and Assembler. I use 3EZ Pieces for business word processing, and also find other business tasks for it. I am in the process of setting up a mailing list using /// E-Z Pieces for a new museum in the Dallas area called The Southwest Museum of Miniatures. I have been so delighted with the Apple /// that I suggested the museum use it for t and training these special dogs. The thought of writing a book of this size using the old type-edit-retype approach would have probably kept us from getting the manual written in the first place. But with Word Juggler and the trusty ol' Apple ///'s, wong training class with their dogs. In addition to the "hands-on" training, we provide a Training Manual for each recipient. This manual was written on the Apple /// using Word Juggler. It's about 150 pages long and covers all the aspects of caring for le, since I have been known to misspell a word or two. An important part of the training is teaching the new deaf owner how to care for and keep up the training of their new Hearing Dog. We often invite 6 to 10 recipients to San Francisco for a week-lve a spellchecker, I often type a document using 3EZP, then save it as an ASCII file. Then I load the ASCII file into Word Juggler and use Lexicheck to check typo's and spelling. This takes a minute or two longer, but for a long document it's worthwhiy of my typo's and misspellings. At first I used PFS File and Report. But as soon as I started using 3 EZ Pieces, PFS File was put on the shelf. When we need to have mail merge, we use Habamerge with 3 EZP. To get around the fact the 3 EZP doesn't haer almost exclusively. Word Juggler is used for most of our letters and memos and 3 EZ Pieces for data base purposes. Although I also use 3 EZP for word processing, I prefer Word Juggler because I can use the spellchecker (Lexicheck), which catches manOur program is non-profit and totally funded by private donations. Our budget does not allow us to go out and buy everything we need, such as computers and printers. The A///s we received have done a fantastic job for us. We use 3 EZ Pieces and Word Juggleaf. These dogs are taught to alert their deaf or hearing impaired masters to important sound such as doorknocks, doorbells, fire alarms, telephones, oven-timers and all sorts of "bells and whistles" which deaf people can't hear but need respond to. 's with all sorts of accessories and software which we promptly put to use in the administrative end of the Hearing Dog Program. The Hearing Dog Program selects dogs from animals shelters in the Bay Area and trains them to become Hearing Dogs for the D Software Publishing Corporation. Soon after I got the hang of using the Apple ///, I decided to use it to send out letters to all the companies that wrote software for the ///. As a result, over the next year or so we received another three Apple /// retyping. Since our budget did not provide for going out and buying computers, I started telling everyone I saw that we needed a computer for word processing. One of my "bugs" paid off and we received an Apple /// donated by Fred Gibbons, president ofre 4 Apple ///'s at work here at the Hearing Dog Program. All were donated by various businesses or individuals. About 4 years ago, I thought, with all the correspondence our office put out, there must be a better way than constantly typing, editing and ///s? - by Ralph Dennard, 415-554-3020 What do dogs and computers have in common? Both can be frustrating at times, but both can also be great to have around. As Director of The San Francisco SPCA Hearing Dog Program I get to work with both. There ahis mail list application. I feel that even though the Apple /// is eight years old, it's still ahead of other so called latest technology computers. I have no doubt I will still be learning of its secrets many years into the future. HOW I USE MY APPLEe did the job with a smile and can easily revise any section as needed. BY THE WAY! We desperately need a 5 MB Profile. If any of you know how we might get one donated, I'd appreciate the lead (Ralph Dennard, 415/554-3020). We really enjoy using 3 EZP. We keep lots of important data using this program - recipients, contributors and sponsors, etc. This allows us to analyze the data in many ways and to create quarterly and annual reports. If we need to know the average age of our deaf recipients, we ca 8] STOP "FONT GENERATOR /// requires BUSINESS BASIC and is provided on an un-protected disk for easy program modification. A PASCAL version which uses the mouse and our MACSTUFF unit to perform pull-down menus and other Macintosh-like functions nto another one. Editing and creating characters can be done from either the keyboard or joystick (or both). The following character FONTS are included on 1] APPLE 5] ROMAN 2] BYTE 6] SLANT 3] GOTHIC 7] STANDARD 4] INVERSE with different foreground and background colors (16 colors from which to choose). As many as ten character FONTS (not including working font) may be loaded at any one time. FONT GENERATOR /// also has the capability of copying characters from one font iw your font would look before it is even saved. Great for business that must create special symbols to be used in correspondence. "But, that's not all it can do. You can also check out how your font would look in the different text modes, and yes, evend his performance, his excerpted letter follows: "Font Generator ///" is a user-oriented program that was designed to incorporate many of the Apple ///'s powerful built-in features to help in the designing of character FONTS. With it you can test out hosuvwxyz{|ograms were truly amazed at the versatility of these innovative and advanced techniques for font and text management. Well, Steve has written to say that he has completed the work in process at the time of his talk and for the benefit of those who misseAPPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL 4 NUMBER 5 MAY, 1987 MACSTUFF & FONT MANAGER Last November 20th those of us who were privileged to hear and see Steve Robertson, President of Apollo Software, demonstrate his "MACSTUFF" and "FONT MANAGER" prMAC.IMITATIONvƶ9' '/MACSTUF.N.FONTSt ƶ97r-MACSTUFF.DEMO~s ƶ:9r-MACSTUFF.PSCLfƶ:9rZP and Habamerge gets the job done, including mailing labels. Believe me, our Apple ///'s have been worth their weight in gold in helping the Hearing Dog Program meet its goals of bringing people and animals together to help each other. n easily run a report by age and get this data. If we need to send a special mailing only to our Los Angeles recipients, we can sort by zip code and use Habamerge for the letter. If we want to send "personal" Thank You letters to our contributors, 3Eis still in development. All registered owners of FONT GENERATOR /// will be notified by mail when the new version is available. "We have also included a FONT disk to save you from having to create your own. The fonts available on this disk are: APPLE, BLACK, BOLD, BYTE, CELTIC, COLOSSAL, COMPUTER, COUNT, CURSIVE, CYRILLIC, DUTCH, ESPERANTO, FRENCH, GERMAN, GOTHIC, GRAPHIC, GREEK, HEBREW, INVERSE, LATIN, MIRROR, OLD-ENGLISH, OUTLINE, PINNOCCHIO, PUDGY, PUDGY-ROMAN, SHADOW, SLANT, SMALL, STOP, and Uically, there are 10 temporary fonts with one 'working' font. ASCII numerical codification permits copying various versions and sub-versions of any font character which can be x-y'd for deletion or enhancement of lineage. This editing display is similar }nd a half talk concerning his "MACSTUFF" and "FONT GENERATOR" that would have appealed to many who were absent. For the benefit of those absent he walked through "FONT GENERATOR" showing color-contrasting capabilities for picture/text manipulation. BasVOLUME 3 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 1986 NOTES ON THE LAST MEETING The November 20th meeting was poorly attended, there being only 9 members present and this was regrettable because Steven Robertson, President of Apollo Software, presented us with an hour ait he allowed for quantity discounts if the orders were sizeable enough. If interested, please contact Edward Suttles (415) 647-2759 before the end of May so that a group order may be made. - Ed Suttles with a FULL MONEY BACK GUARANTEE." Enclosed with Steve's letter was a flier outlining an inventory closeout of the above mentioned software: MACSTUFF $50.00 FONT GENERATOR $25.00 FONT MANAGER $35.00 At the November meeting and subsequent to the best thing is that you can do all these wonderful things EASILY by yourself, and with a little help from MACSTUFF. All that is required is PASCAL and either a joystick or a mouse. "In fact, we are so confident in our product that we offer it program on disk that can be used as a foundation to create your own magic. Astonish your friends with your program ability. "MACSTUFF" will allow your computer to perform some amazing feats, probably some that you considered impossible before. But ult. That's where our extraordinary MACSTUFF comes into play. MACSTUFF is a PASCAL intrinsic unit which allows you to quickly and easily write your own programs with features of more sophisticated computers. In fact, we have even provided a skeleton le /// perform like a Macintosh. Think of it! Your own programs with pull-down menus, menu bars, and alert boxes. And, Yes, you can even use the mouse with your software. Revolutionary! Even State-of-the-Art, but you probably think that is too difficllow for the intricately fashioned font characters created by the computer). Requiring PASCAL, this uses MACSTUFF and the extensive font disk provided to enable the user to diversify and elaborate textual output. "MACSTUFF", or, how to make your AppNCIAL. (He makes no mention of the fact, but he also demonstrated some Hiragana and Katakana fonts while here) "FONT MANAGER" permits the user to create character fonts, edit and save them to disk and then download to the printer (which must be a DMP to ato the one used in "NEWSROOM" toggle-editing where pixel addition/deletion enables you to change the display (in this case, the individual font character). Once a general idea has been entered in the font display, starting from scratch, the computer can generate a whole alphabet in ASCII equivalents in conformity with the basic design set up by the operator. As an example, "Horse", the logo font for "Apollo Software", was developed by Mr. Robertson for an unique approach to advertising and promotion MICROSCI.DRIVEvƶ:' 'A143.AND.CATLSTƶ:;-A143.DCB.INFO`ƶ:;.A143.DRV.ALIGN ƶ;,A143.INSTALL*ƶ;/A143.MAINT.INFOkƶ;.A143.MAINT.PT2We will try to get a demonstration of these programs in the next couple of months. --Rod Whitten equire Pascal. The price is $200. Available from: Apollo Software P.O. Box 6434 Kent, WA 98064-6434 There is a 20% discount for 2-4 copies and 50% for 5 or more. The above information is from their advertisement. ports a color monitor. Price is $50. The second program is MACSTUFF. This program is a Pascal intrinsic unit which allows you to incorporate Mac like features in your A/// programs. It supports pull-down menus, menu bars, alert boxes and a mouse. RVOLUME 3 NUMBER 4 APRIL 86 Apollo Software has introduced two products for the A/// market. The first is FONT GENERATOR ///, which will allow you design your own screen fonts or use one of MANY fonts on the disk. It requires Business Basic and supas small enough to allow for discussion without excluding anyone's views on a particular subject. - Ed Suttles only limitations seemed to be printers, joysticks and/or mice which depended on the card support and driver configuration to make them work. Members, interested in programming and machine language acceleration, had a most enjoyable time and the group weresting meeting. They also had input concerning improvements in as yet partially developed features of the "FONT-GENERATOR". There was considerable discussion of the peripheral controls that have been suggested for use with this program. In fact the icular set identified by their own pathname. Fortunately for Steven Robertson, those who did attend were for the most part conversant with ASCII character identification and could ask enough intelligent questions concerning his work to make it an intity. Store, restore, cancellation, all in real time are the techniques of font generation beginning from scratch or by alteration of existing fonts. After the desired shape, size etc. are achieved and SAVED, they become distinct font characters in a parties of other menus with 20 additional options, ad infinitum) give an operator access to macro-like storage some of which were listed in the November ATUNC Newsletter. These can be opted individually with a display grid for viewing and alteration capabilto show what his product can do. Characters of the alphabet are all in the shape of horses in various positions. "FONT-MANAGER", nearly completed, works off "MACSTUFF". Pull-down menus allowing 20 options to a menu (with potential extension capabilit !ƶ,MICROSCI.143 =ƶ  APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 3 NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 1986 Q3. Can I use my MicroSci A143 as the large storage device with Catalyst? The Catalyst manual has the parameters to change in the device driver file, but I cannot get it to work.I don't have an alignment disk, so I used my A143 data disk and a 3EZP disk. Step 1: Verify the problem. The best thing to do is to read and write from a disk, or at least format and verify a blank disk. If it reads and writes on itself, but notThomas E. Linders, 12604 Wardell Court, Saratoga CA 95070, 408-741-1001) Joe Dobrowolski sent me a damaged A143 that wouldn't read any disks due to a bad write IC as well as screwed up alignment. How do you align it? There are 4 steps to the alignment. APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWSLETTER VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 1 January 1988 HARDWARE HOW TO ALIGN THE A143 MICRO SCI DRIVE. (This article may be copied, as long as the author gets credit for either a good or a bad job. Address any questions to: em to work. I do not have an A143 to test this on, but would appreciate feedback if it does. number, in this case slot 0. BYTE 1 --> refers to drive number, with drive #1=00, drive #2=01, drive #3=02, and drive #4=03. BYTE 6 --> enables or disables directory buffering. In the case of the A143, 00 (no buffering) works. 80 (buffering) does not seshould work. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0X 00 02 E1 03 01 10 00 8F 97 8A 91 93 23 17 17 F6 1X 00 B8 BYTE 0 --> refers to slot found the following. A4. The right DCB values are on "///'s Company." For anyone interested, to use a MicroSci A143, with version 1.3.0 drivers on version 2.0 Catalyst, as the boot disk, the following configuration block for the .CATALYST driver to APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 3 NUMBER 11 NOVEMBER 1986 Q4. Last month we printed an answer that said the DCB for the MicroSci A143 found in the Catalyst manual were wrong. This was partially correct. In cleaning up an old file, I A3. The parameters given in the Catalyst manual do not work. The A143 will work fine as a data disk with Catalyst, but will not work as the large storage device in lieu of the Profile. from another disk, then alignment is likely the problem. Step 2: The mechanical stop is an allen head screw that is at the far right hand rear of the drive. After step l has been attempted, back the mechanical stop off a turn or two. Step 3: The optical stop is on the left side of the drive rail. (Please refer to my previous article). To align it, loose the 2 screws and push the optical stop as well as the head toward the center of the drive as far as they can go. Put in a disk that has A143 dater unit such as the Profile, etc. (but now the unidisk is available, ed) This drive has 4 times the capacity of the normal Disk /// (sometimes ]/[ on some Apple paper work) and has removable media. PURPOSE: The purpose of this article is to explore, APPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 4 NUMBERS 10 & 11 OCT/NOV 1987 THE MICROSCI A-143 DISK DRIVE INTRODUCTION: The Micro Sci A-143 was the only large capacity disk drive available for the Apple ///, other than a 5 to 20 megabyte Winchesty, San Francisco 94108. Hal Edelstein g with Charles McConathy, the leading authority on the A-143, I've written up a four-page summary of the installation procedures. If you would like a copy, send me a self-addressed stamped (22 cent) envelope to me, c/o Gensler and Associates, 550 Kearning up the A-143 is a little trickier than merely plugging it in. (What else is new in Computer Land?). I've now set up three of them for office and home use, and keep finding new quirks that are skipped or glossed over in the manual. After consultinApril 1985 VOL. 2 NO. 4 INSTALLING THE MICROSCI A-143 DRIVER: The Microsci A-143 drive quadruples the storage capacity of a 5-1/4" diskette from 280 to 1,120 blocks, which has obvious advantages to both floppy-disk and hard-disk users. However, settanism. Then tighten the screws and read a couple of disks, to make it sure it works. This procedure is not for the faint hearts, but it works, and would probably work better if I had a decent alingment disk. you can see the head etc move with it. On Joe's drive, it was a simple adjustment of the motor, and then everything was quite normal. Then you should run the mechanical stop screw back until the point just about contacts the moving part of the head mechening the 2 mounting screws and turning the motor one way and then the other. Prior to doing this, it is advisable to mark the motor ear posistions with a pencil, in case you might want to return it back to its original positon. As you rotate the motor, t the optical stop just in front of the rear most phillips head screw and tighten the 2 screws down prior to running step l again. step 4: The stepper motor. If step 3 doesn't work, the final trial will be to move the head step motor slightly by loosa on it, and try to read from it. I used the systems utility "list file" option. As the disk tries to read track 00, it may stop and try real hard. If, try as you might, you cannot get the drive to read tract 00, it's better to stop and repeat Step l. Pu in enough detail to be able to repair, the A-143 drive. I have hoped that some kind soul, like the designer of the A-143, would step forward, and bare his soul to the world, but that has not happened. Alas, I believe that Micro Sci has gone claws up, sh. I then put a tiny amount of WD-40 on a rag and wiped the two rails, and then wiped the rails dry with a clean rag. You do not want an oily film here as it will tend to attract dust and dirt and raise a bit of havoc later on. If you have a problem in trything is OK if one bar remains within 1/2 a position in 10 seconds. The next thing that I have had a small amount of trouble with has been the head slide mechanism. I put a bit of alcohol on a text wipe and cleaned the unit up, but it was still slugginot want to be. If necessary run the test using the wheel on the underside of the disk and monitor it with a neon strobe lamp, or a fluorescent bulb. If all else fails, you can use a regular light, but it is hard to see the change in the pattern. Eve The crystal in an American computer is set at 14.31818 MHz, or four times the color burst signal while some of the European computers are set to run at 14.250450 MHz. This is enough of a difference to put you off about 1/2% on disk speed, which you do e speed is OK. Make sure that you return the heads to their original connections. Make sure that when you are checking the speed you know if you have an European Apple /// or an American Apple ///. The difference is in the crystal and some of the proms.sk. Both sides of the disk read circuits are tied together and are gated thru a 4:1 mux, but only one side works in the Apple ][ Emulation mode. At the end of this test you should know that the Unit can read & write to both sides of the disk and that the ][ disk drive speed checker program. The adjustment of the drive is easy to do and can be done in a matter of seconds, not minutes. I usually switch heads, and run the speed test from both heads, just to make sure that all is OK on both sides of the diin the Apple ][ Disk ][ diagnostics. With the disk speed check, you can repair perhaps 40% of the problems that come your way. It is real simple, just boot the Apple /// in the Emulation mode, and run the Apple ][ Disk ][ diagnostics program or any Applg paragraph and wiggle the cable. This simple act should take care of finding 25% of your problems. The 2nd thing to do is run speed diagnostics on the unit. There are several diagnostics around that can find a problem with the unit. The best one to use believe it, of the 8 or so drives that I have repaired, two of them had a bad cable from the drive to the outside world. All I did was cut the last two inches off and reuse the connector. The way to find the problem is to run diagnostics as in the followint and off the motherboard. First you take a pair of small sidecutters, and you crush the little bone, wing, antlers, claws and anything else that may happen to be left over. But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself... EASY THINGS TO CHECK OUT: Would you n is pretty good. The main gripe that I have is that the chips are not socketed, but are soldered in. That should stop many of the timid people from getting in there, after looking around. How do you get a bad IC (or worse yet, one you suspect is bad) ouneed to state this as I do not have all of the Micro Sci data that I need to make a fool proof article, and, you all might have a different drive than I do. THE AUTHOR AS REPAIRMAN: I have repaired several of the drives, and can only say that the desigand I have taken it upon myself to be the "poor fool" that tries to explain what and why someone else did five to seven years ago. As with all showings of the lottery on the local German Tee Vee, this article is also, "ohne Gewaehr", or no guarantee. I his area and have to go in and clean things up, you should also check up the door release mechanism. Assuming that the above simple tricks don't work, it's time to bite the bullet and either turn the unit over to a repairman or dive in. The following brief explanations may help you dive in. Remember I reverse engineered the dirve, along with the help of some prints on some Micro Sci drives. Let's start ... SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF THE A-143: I have divided the unit into several sections: 0 read/write  pulses to a four winding stepper motor to drive the head in and out. The MicroSci Al43 uses only the first three pins as it uses the 4th pin for selecting the upper or lower head. The best thing to do to check these signal out is to look at them with aVOLUME 4 NUMBERS 12 DECEMBER 1987 HARDWARE The Micro Sci Al43 Drive - part 2, by Thomas Linders Head Step Circuitry The next area to look is the head step circuits. The Apple non quad density drives use input pins 2, 4, 6, and 8 to supply the driven them. Next time Part Two. - Thomas Linders, Brucknuehl, West Germany (or PO Box 991, APO NY 09098) hes was probably that the chassis that Micro Sci purchased came with them and they wanted the track 00 sensor to be very fast. These devices are supposed to be more reliable than a switch and they probably are if they do not have a lot of contamination o with alcohol and put them back. Someone either smokes a lot or the installer had greasy fingers. Anyway you don't have to do anything to the in use sensor as it is not used in any unit I have worked on. The reason for using light sensors in lieu of switcSSIS MOUNTED SENSORS: Next it is probably a good idea to verify two of the three sensors on the chassis of the drive. These are: 0 write protect 0 track 00 0 in use These things have been a problem. I have had to take two sensors out, clean them offor in the back on pins 28 and 29. This signal is "shaped up" in U-13 and run thru an LS 123. The 123 is a good candidate to be the problem, as I personally hate all multivibrators, especially the 121 and 123 but that is probably a personal dislike. CHAhigher than the emitter. If the motor doesn't work at this point, verify that there is a signal on the input 26 and it's inverse on U-8 pin 4. If the above is OK, verify that there is a feedback system available from the motor on the left most connectlled thru a TIP 110 (111 or 112 will also work) in an emitter follower configuration. If the motor does not spin up, verify that there is 12 volts on the collector, and that the base and emitter are at about five volts, with the base being a diode drop f the board on the tip of the unit is a very long 32 pin connector, that has three mating connectors, two 5 pin small ones, and one 22 pin large one. The small 5 pin connector on the left is the motor control connector. The drive motor current is contro The motor control area is the most frustrating to dive into as the motor speed is controlled, but it has a speed variation higher than the Apple drives. Even the regular Micro Sci drives have a wider speed variation than the Apple drives. At the back oe board in the rear of the unit. Then use a new toothbrush with isopropyl alcohol and clean the connectors that have pins, like the input connector and the read/write/erase heads. Use 90% or better isopropyl alcohol and not rubbing or denatured alcohol. 0 erase 0 track 00 sense 0 head step 0 Apple ][/write prot 0 spin disk MOTOR CONTROL CIRCUITRY: Prior to doing anything, take a pad soaked in isopropyl alcohol and clean the heads and then the fingers of the long connector on th scope and run the Apple ][ diagnostic disk. These disgnostics ask the head to retract to track 00, and so you only have to start the diagnostics several times and you will have a gaggle of head step pulses to look at. If all the pulses are present, th students to adjust the speed. If it can be done it will, and the units were used on German Apples, and they didn't know about the speed difference due to the different clock. All in all, if you have a bit of guts, you can fix these units. Once again, e optics used for track 00 and write protect, one unit had someones elbow inside it and made one of the heads fly about a micron too high (that was a real bear to find). Also, three problems were speed related, as the owner of the drive had holes for theall of the ones and zeros on both sides of the disk in the proper place. CONCLUSION Remember, check the cable before you pull the unit apart. I had two problems with the 8 drives that I have repaired, that were traced to the cable. Two problems were thT OF TRACK 00 I have not had to do track 00 alignment and it looks like it could be real bear. When I have to do it, I suspect that I will have to use one of the special disks (at $65) that are available to do this sort of thing. The problem is to keep problem that I had was that the write protect circuit wouldn't turn on as there was not enough light getting into the receiver, and the input was always high. The device was dirty, and I had to remove the receiver, clean it, and put it back. ALIGNMENys crowbar the write circuits to prevent accidental writing. Why they used a fancy light circuit is beyond me, but is one of the circuits that does go bad. You may need to replace the device, or at least clean it to get the system up and running. One big ircuits, in that it sets a software switch, and does not clamp the write circuit so that it cannot write. This is one area that needs redesign on all disk drives I have ever seen. The write protect switch may send a signal to software, but it should alwa lot of the other circuitry, and then the likes of the seven I C's needed to send the data out would, for the most part, be unnecessary. Aci es la vida. Of special interest is the write protect circuit, as it is just like all the other write protect cit is straight forward, but the read circuit contains a multi pole filter, and is followed by a reclocking circuit that would make Rube Golberg (sp) proud. It's too bad that these, and other disk drives didn't use a digital clock to run the motor and a the other half of the head step 4:1 mux. This mux selects which of the two read/write heads will be reading or writing, and is controlled by the not.write.gate and write protect. The mux is enabled whenever the not.enable signal is low. The write circuoblem when you put the new one in, and then have your wife ask you again if you really checked out the connector, and you didn't. I know, and I even did it twice on two different circuits. READ/WRITE, ERASE, AND 4:1 MUX Who is on first is determined byave had here have been caused by a bad current driver and a bad wire at the end of the cable. I cannot stress enough, check that input cable before you go off and kill a bug, as it is a real pain to destroy an I C to get it out, still have the same pr inverters, and then the current drivers. Pins 2 and 4 on the mux tell it which one of the four outputs to put out a signal on, and the output of U-10 on pin 11 enables the mux, or it would step whenever there is head step activity. The only problems I hen move to the output and monitor the UUN2003 to see if the voltage on pins ll, 12, 13, and 16 is usually high and goes low when the head is stepped. The circuitry in this area is rather straight forward, the 4:1 Mux, an LS 139, drives a set of four hex no guarantee on the schematic (see next page) as it was made from bits and pieces, reverse engineering, and the like. Layout of the MicroSci Al43 board: REAR OF UNIT 26 pin input connector P.4.3 P.4.2 P.4.1---------------->> Pin 1 Pin 25 Pin 32-----------------------Pin 1 U-17 U-16 U-15 U-14 U-13 U-12 U-11 U-10 Motor Q-2 U-9 U-8 U-7 U-6 om and written to. The trick is to manually set the head to track 0 ( the outer most track) and to place the 143 into #2 drive position. Procedure: (with the computer off) Remove the cover of the Micro Sci 143 Drive and turn it upside down. e problem. However, the Micro Sci 143 drive is not usable in // emulation mode because the head will not move and the emulation mode recognizes only the internal drive (slot 6 drive 1) and the external drive (slot 6 drive 2), but the 143 can be read frfortunately, to fix the the error usually destroys the data. There are several products for the Apple // that permit manipulation of nibbles, sectors, and tracks. If the damage had occurred on a regular disk then it would be fairly easy to correct th Blocks 2 through 5 are used for the volume directory. (This may not be completely accurate because the above information is for a regular floppy). SOS refuses to access the disk if these blocks are damaged even though no users data has been lost. Un (As you may have guessed, I had several damaged disks in storage awaiting the day I learned to recover their contents.) The nice thing about having only blocks 0 or 1 damaged is that they are used for the boot image and no users data is stored there. volume for no apparent reason, even when I am using double sided double density disks. Of course this always happens when I do not have a back up of the data. What I recently discovered was that the damage usually happens to block 0 or 1 of track 0. ng 'half tracks' and part of the reverse side. (Regular disk drives can access half tracks but the footprint of their read/write head is too wide and would cause erasure of adjacent tracks.) Every now and then, the Micro Sci 143 drive will damage the e Optional: Locksmith 5.0 copywrite: Alpha Logic small screwdriver The Micro Sci 143 drive is an Apple /// compatible 5.25" floppy drive that stores 1120 blocks of data, compared to 280 for a regular drive. It increases the density by usiAPPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL. 2 NO. 11 NOVEMBER, 1985 TIPS IN USING THE MICRO SCI 143 DRIVE Repairing destroyed volumes Equipment required: Phillip screw driver Apple // emulator Bag of Tricks copywrite: Quality Softwar7 ULN 2003A U-2 CA 3054RCA U-10 LS 32 P.4.3 Drive Mtr U-3 NE 592 U-11 LS 74 P.4.2 Head Step (This article may be copied, as long as the author gets credit for either a good or a bad job. Address any questions to: Thomas E. Linders, P.O.Bo LM 311 U-12 LS 86 Q-2 2N-3904 U-5 LS 02 U-13 LS LM 339 Q-3 2N-3904 U-6 LS 139 U-14 LS 74 Q-4 PN-4393 U-7 LS 123 U-15 LS 125 U-8 LS 33 U-16 LS 04 Q-5 TIP-110 or-111 or-112 U-1 CA 3054RCA U-9 LS 123 U-1 Q-3 U-3 Q-2 U-2 U-1 Q-1 bottom top head head P.3.2 P.3.1 Parts listing Q-1 2N-3904 U-4 Now move the head to its outer most position. Attach it to the disk drive port on the back of the ///. This will make it drive 2. Boot up the emulation disk, then Bag of Tricks from Quality Software and enter the TRAX section. Enter: S -> ( or <- ). Now you should see, 'SL=06 DR=02 TRACK=00 FORMAT=16' at the top of the screen. Enter: R this will cause the track to be read in and analyzed. If an error exist then the computer will beep and display a '**' in e-WOZNIAK.ON.A3ƶ'.XMAS.FOR.A3ERS a ƶ)ƶ/A3.TO.IBM.TRANSƶ'A3.USESƶ"-GAMES.A3.MODEƶ#.HIFI.SOUND.ON3ƶ$.MINIMUM.A3.SYS ƶ&.MOST.USED.PGMSWƶ&MISC.A3.INFOvƶ' '.A3.FOR.COLLEGE!ƶ *A3.FOREVER ƶ,A3.IN.EUROPE ƶ,A3.MANIFESTOƶ-A3.PUBLIC.DOM )ƶ*A3.STORIESn track 0, but it should be more accurate. - Pat Ford e Locksmith SPEED option. The speed adjustment screw is located on the left side at the rear (when the front is facing you). Be sure to use a blank or expendable floppy disk, since the data will be destroyed. It is not essential that the drive be orror because it thinks it is reading another track. Therefore LS has to be stopped before it tries to read another track. In addition, the disk drive speed of the Micro Sci 143 drive may be adjusted when placed in the above configuration by using thors that were not damaged. You should now be able to use the disk. Locksmith 5.0 has a fast verify option that will also show where the damaged sectors are located, however, it will try to verify the entire disk. This will result in an A (address) etime If this is all correct enter . An error message will appear saying that some sectors could not be read. Enter: P this will continue the reformatting process. The track has now been reformatted preserving the data in those sect 02 * Slot 06 Drive 02 Volume number Default not used in SOS or ProDOS Starting track 00 Ending track 00 * not critical to reformatting, but may change access ould now be on ENDING TRACK. Enter: <- ENDING TRACK should now read 00. The screen parameters should now read: Disk sectorring 16 Disk format PASCAL Preserve data YES Skew direction DESCENDING * Skew factor INIT section Enter: to set the pointer to DISK FORMAT Enter: -> (arrow) until PASCAL appears Hit the space bar 5 times. The pointer should now be set to DRIVE. Enter: -> DRIVE should now be 02 Hit the space bar 3 times. The pointer shor(s). Block 0 is mapped to track 0 sectors 0 & 2, and block 1 to track 0 sectors 8 & A. If the error occurs in a sector besides 0, 2, 8, or A then data loss is likely. Enter: Y to go back to the main menu. Enter: I to enter the ither the address or data checksum at the bottom on the page. Note: the TRK column should read 00, and TRK should not be in inverse. If this is not the case, reposition the drive head. Enter an 'A' or a 'D' to show which sector(s) have the checksum errAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 6, June 1988 Q7. What is your view of the A/// as a college computer? A7. I think A/// is a good computer for a college student. I would have loved to have had one. The main use for a college stuppear. No way, Jose. I propose that those of us who know, own and love our ///'s should, as in the anonymous quote, take the bull by the tail and look reality in the face. I think we're going to have to see to it ourselves, that we derive the full benotential for the /// has barely been tapped, and may be the perfect choice for someone who wants to be creative with computing. Apple ][ people benefit from the Apple ][ Forever program, but we have gotten a lot of messages that the /// should just disad in learning to write my own programs has been returned to me many, many times over. Switching to any other machine seems surely a retrogressive move. The /// is a serious, no nonsense computer system, a powerful tool for building mental muscle. The ptions to persuade me I had somehow made a bad choice. The fact is, I have used it continuously and profitably in my business from the day I first turned it on. Every hour I've spent in learning to operate it, in learning to use applications software, anAPPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL. 2 NO. 5 MAY 1985 APPLE THREE FOREVER I will soon have had my Apple /// one year, my first computer. It's been fun and it's been frustrating, both expected, but I didn't expect the efforts from various direchic terminal, go buy a Mac. hat requires heavy number crunching, it will probably be done on the college mainframe anyhow. If not, the A/// with a modem can usually access most university computers and act as a terminal (Access /// is excellent at that). If you want a heavily grap Besides, the cost difference is not that much. For a printer I would recommend something that has the Epson command set as most A/// programs will work with the standard Epson drivers (most important for any graphics programs). If you go into a field tdent is writing papers. Team the A/// with a 24-pin or daisy wheel printer, it'll produce the same output as any MS-DOS clone. Don't get a 9-pin matrix printer as there seems still to be a prejudice against them as "unreadable" by some faculty members. efit from our equipment. Perhaps most important of all, why shouldn't the /// be included in the office network that Apple is developing around the Mac. All the objections that traditional computer users present to having the Mac in the office could be answered by keeping the /// as an essential working part of that network. If Apple won't do it, then perhaps someone like On /// will. PRESERVING THE ///: 1) Gather and preserve whatever documentation can be had for hardware and software from both A have the money to buy such a computer. Nowadays A/// is not fast enough as business machine. Those who bought it in the early years, now put it aside and are using MS-dos or UNIX's, or maybe Macintoshes. I know a compagny with 60 A///s idle. The resultst of the A///s were sold with VISICALC ///. The goal was the spreadsheet, not the A///. A few years later, A///s were on the market with Applewriter /// or Visicalc ///. There was no other choice. The machines were very expensive and a hobbyist didn't APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 7, July 1988 APPLE /// IN EUROPE by Hendrik Van der Straeten, Belgium 8 Years ago when the first Apple /// computers were sold here in Europe, an A/// without any business program didn't exist. Moler environment. 6) 86816 (?) chip upgrade? Let us rally behind our own Apple /// Forever project. Let's put our creativity and industry to work. I'd like to hear some ideas besides my own. - Wayne A. Schotten iscs from other operating systems such as those already produced by the International Apple Core. 6) Keep up to date with compilers for other languages including ADA, C, FORTH, LISP et cetera. It seems that this should be possible in the Pascal/Assemb's digital to analog converter. What about the console driver? Where's red? 3) I'd like to see a RAM disc to work in the Disk /// chain, i.e. a solid state .d3 and .d4. 4) Mac/Lisa communication as with the ][. 5) Conversion programs to access dof us learning to do the assembly language work so we can write device drivers and so forth. I'm willing to try it some day, but I've got to learn a lot first. For example, I'd like to see a better audio driver so we can take fuller advantage of the ///MPLETING THE ///: 1) There must be other tinkerers besides myself. Some things we can develop for ourselves; e.g. audio driven external device controllers, or light pens and graphic tablets, etc. using the nearly forgotten game paddle ports. 2) Some lined should actively develop our own software. I've been enjoying success in writing and using my own programs. I've also been converting some Apple ][ programs and intend to build a library of public domain software. I'm more than willing to share. CO2) Encourage by communication and purchases such peripheral manufacturers such as On ///, Micro Sci, and so on. 3) Buy Apple stock. Even one share gets you into the stockholders' meetings. What a noise we could make en masse! 4) Those of us so inc and manuals. SUPPORTING THE ///: 1) Maintain good contact with Apple, after all we are business users and still potential customers. I have heard reports that Apple recently opened a manufacturing line and built a large number of ///'s on request. pple and outside vendors. 2) Gather and preserve spare parts, even defective equipment may someday prove valuable if repaired. 3) Identify and garner cooperation from those who know the inner workings of the ///. 4) Copy and safeguard both floppies is that many students and small businessmen now get these machines at home without the knowledge of using them. The manuals disappeared during these years. And so did most of the software originally bought with the computer. A few people in Belgium and The Netherlands, also in France and the UK, decided to form a user group to help. We are 25 A/// users. Many of us use also other machines. We got all the original software that were left with the A///s. The A/// is used for: - word processing : mostl governor at the helm, one MacIntosh, without the approval of the people, and did advise us if we did not like it to buy one of his brethern; He hath not keepst his ear to the market place, his eye on the stock exchange, and lo! our investments did with malice, and did advertise and promote it never; He hath ignored the pleas of ///rs, being wrapped up in his own agendas, and did TAX our patience; He hath taken our money, knowing full well of his plans for the ///; He hath placed a newyears ahead of it's brethern, and to the beings of the Dark Power, IBM; That /// owners know a deal when they see one. We hold that the High King of Apple has committed grievous injuries against the /// and it's owners: He hath buried the ///lf from others, let it be said that we hold these truths to be self-evident: That all computers are not created equal; That the /// was endowed by it's creators with powers that make it the most superior micro on the market; That SOS is light-APPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL. 2 NO. 6 JUNE, 1985 The /// Manifesto Excerpted from COMPUSERVE DECLARATION OF /// INDEPENDANCE When in the course of electronic events it becomes necessary for one computer to disassociate itsesks use other computers, maybe another Apple. Hendrik Van der Straeten AUBAN (Apple /// users of Belgium and The Netherlands) Mechelsebaan 116 2850 KEERBERGEN BELGIUM tel.: 15-516561 ny things. It's still a very fine computer. We are convinced that the computer is not the most important thing, far more important is what you do and realise with it. Use the Apple /// for the tasks it can do where speed is not so important. For other taI have to choose a good database program (maybe 4th Dimension or DBASE Mac). We all know the A/// is dying (?). From the day when it was on the market, it's been a very progressive and friendly computer. After all these years we used it, we learned ma, I bought 4 unidrives, 2 at home and 2 at the office, from ON THREE. It was a good buy because I can use these drives on the Macintosh as external drives! Because treating data with PFS is very slow, I am thinking now to put the files on a Macintosh SE. e PFS. Several years ago I created a database in PFS that holds the inventory of the installations of public lights and signalizations on the Belgian roads. I have one A/// for it at home and one in the office. I use hard disks. To exchange the data filess Business Basic to create programs to solve specific problems on plastics & other materials and to solve equations. Pascal is used by engineers and medical specialists to create statistics and to classify diseases and behavior of people. I personaly usy 3 EZ pieces, - speadsheet : Visicalc, Ad'd Visicalc, - file transfer : Access ///, - languages : Business Basic, Pascal, - database : 3 EZ Pieces and PFS. Only one person uses COBOL to create high rated business programs. A high school professor useplumelet; He did winneth the battle for control, and hath lost the war of the marketplace. THEREFORE, we hereby declare the independent state of the ///. Let Apple mindth it's business, and we ours. Let them keep their ]['s, their Mac, for they are Alien beings. To this end we pledge our minds, our time and our sacred checkbooks. Done, Guys. Frank Moore on of common drivers. SYSTEM UTILITIES The last Apple update of System Utilities, Version 1.2F. BIG DISK CHECK Checks "Big Disks" for bad blocks. 1 disk and NO documentation. A good subject for an article for the newsletter. FORTRAN 1.0 at $15. DEVICE WRITERS GUIDE One manual to be used with the the SOS REF MANUAL to write device drivers for the A///. SOS 1.3 UPDATER Updates disks from 1.1 to 1.3. Do NOT use with Quark products. Included on the disk is also the latest versi MANUAL To be used for assembly language programs for the ///. Assumes a prior knowledge of 6502 assembly language programming. Includes 1 disk (ExerSos) and two manuals, 350 pages. Ed Suttles has several original copies of this manual set for salenual is part of toolkit. PASCAL TOOLKIT For use with Pascal Ver 1.2. Includes 3 disks and has a 196 page 8 1/2 by 11 manual. TECH REF MANUAL For advanced users of P-system. Includes 1 disk and about 100 pages of 8 1/2 by 11 manual. SOS REF. PASCAL 1.1 UPDATE Updates Version 1.0 Pascal. One needs version 1.0 for this to be of use. Includes 3 disks & 2 short update manuals. PASCAL VER 1.2 Updates portions of Ver 1.1 and includes a new Ver 2.0 compiler. Includes 4 disks. The mauseful to you. I will have listing of each disk catalog at the next meeting for you to examine if you wish some more detail. A large portion of the material relates to Pascal and will be helpful to you ONLY if you already have and are using Pascal 1.0g, Steve Wesolowski, Apple Developer Technical Support, left the club a number of manuals and accompanying disks for our library. I have listed the programs and documentation that is available and a short description to help you get an idea if it will f gratitude for having coming to talk to us and giving us materials that are no longer available in the marketplace (and, some that never saw the light of a dealer's day). -Ed Suttles List of Software from Apple The Speaker at our August meetinocumentation (see below) that he provided at the culmination of his talk which will be analysed and eventually provided the membership through our Public Domain Library, once the costs of reproduction have been worked out. We owe this man a great debt oan an hour about the internal intricacies of Apple, Inc., software and hardware innovations for all models and the potential for growth (despite the demise of /// production) of our equipment. The big bonus was the plethora of software and accompanying dAPPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL. 2 NO. 9 SEPTEMBER, 1985 Notes on August meeting The August meeting was an outstanding success, no matter how measured. Steve Wesolowski did not disappoint attending members in ad-libbing for better th Requires Pascal to run. One disk and 205 page manual. Use Pascal compiler and editor. BUSINESS BASIC Version 1.23, which is the "best" version of BB that allows one to use greater than 64K. Slightly different from the Ver 1.23 previously distributed thru ATUNC because it has 1 different utility on the disk. 35 pages of technical notes. TECH SERVICE MANUAL About 400 pages of technical info about the A/// hardware. Useful if you are willing to open the top of the ///. EMULATION MODEto dump the A/// before it was totally outdated. I know now, I got the better end of the deal. I've primarily used my A/// for programming the AIIe we have at work. With the help of BASIC, tools from Diversidos, Roger Wagner and Beagle Brothers, Iered an ad in the local paper, the owner didn't say much about why he was getting rid of his A///, except that he was "upgrading" to an AIIc. His son was apparently a developer at APPLE, but it didn't dawn on me until later that his son probably told him as Spock--yes from Star Trek. He went on to list its atributes and needless to say, I was impressed! Two months later I was off to Florida. At that time, I was thinking of buying my own computer, as I was always programming on other's. When I answor tinkerers) to see what neat programming hints were in store for me. I noticed an article by Bill X about the Apple ///. In it he talked about how he would miss writing about the venerable A/// but that times must move on. I remember he refered to it VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 12, December 1988 "Three Cheers for ///" by Mark Chasse, 18271 Jupiter Landings Dr. Jupiter FL 33458 Just before leaving the cold waters of Saco, Maine, in October 1980, I picked up a copy of InCider magazine (this is when it was fng manuals or disks. - Rod Whitten of the manuals and/or disks available for individual members to borrow and xerox themselves. This method of is an attempt to provide distribution to the most members in the smallest amount of time with the minimum amount of risk to losing or scramblisted in on a piece of paper with your typed or printed name. Please use the exact names shown above. The estimated cost of reproduction is 3.5 cents per page for the manuals and $1.50 for each disk. After the initial distribution, we will make a copy me know by or during the next meeting what portions you are interested in. Duplication of the disks can be done easily and cheaply, but the manuals, particularly the large ones, is more of a problem. Please provide a list of the items you are intere and 3 EZ Pieces. 16 pages. RESOURCE GUIDE A May 1984 listing of hardware and software available for the A/// (not real accurate). 90 pages. In order to have a timely and orderly distribution of this information to all the members, PLEASE let 47 pages of information on the A][ emulation mode. Mostly already in your Owners Guide. SOS TECH NOTE 1 5 pages of technical information about SOS.DRIVERs. Only tech note done for the ///. 3EZP FILE FORMAT The file formats for Appleworks was able to put together a slick little database. Some stress test technicians were frustrated with having to re-type dictation they took from doctors, so I wrote a WPL with Apple Writer that lets them choose the doctors' format for reports with specific fields for the necessary information, then prints it in the proper layout. I feel bad that this program is no longer sold by APPLE for the AII family. It's such a powerful text processor. Well, I gotta say although it hasn't always been easy, i somewhat cludgy, has a horrible manual. Its VT100 emulation is good and it has a variety of controlable varibles that make it good for uploading to a BBS. A program that I do not have, TCM (The Communications Manager $50 from On Three) supports Xmodem aon on communications is again a yes. However, I personally use 2 programs, Access /// and Terminus. For strictly accessing and downloading from BBS systems, Terminus is easy to use and set up. However, it only runs from within Word Juggler. Access /// isn't have handled. 2) I own a number of databases on several different computers (dBASE III+ on the IBM and Reflex Plus on the MAC) and the one that I use is 3EZP for my address list, my scout advancement records, and the ATUNC mailing list. (4) The questiprocessing, yes. A good choice. (2) Data management, if it can be handled by 3EZ Pieces, yes. A good choice. But for more than 3EZP, I don't recommend it. (3) 2 things to be taken into account: 1) I can't remember anything I did in college that 3EZP wouldAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 6, June 1988 Q5. Is A/// a good choice for (1) word processing, (2) data management, and (3) other uses that are important in colleges? (4) Are communications programs easily used? A5. (1) Word uck Schreiber PS. This was prepared on the Apple /// with 3EZ Pieces, transmitted to the clone with Access /// and then set up to be retransmitted via modem to our outstanding editor. e same for both. I used Access /// and Procomm for the Apple /// and clone respectively. (Note: 1 stop bit) 3. Once the modem eliminator was put in place the job was relatively easy. One may need to adjust to be sure LF and CR are not duplicated. -Chple /// together using the RS232 port on the APPLE /// and the COMM 1 port on the IBM Compatible. 1. A Modem eliminator is required! (They can be purchased at Radio Shack for approximately $15) 2. The settings on the communications software must be thAPPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 4 NUMBER 1 JANUARY, 1987 APPLE /// UTILITIES MOVING DATA FROM AN APPLE /// TO IBM The information contained herein was acquired as a result of many person hours trying to link an IBM Compatible and an Apt's always been fun! nd Binary II. For error free downloads (ie programs) Xmodem becomes much more important. The bottom line is that there is a wide variety of programs available (all under $100) and the A///s built in serial port makes communicating with a modem quite easy. to the auxiliary input port on my stereo receiver. I trucked on down to my local Radio Shack and purchased several dollars worth of cable and connectors and hooked it up, and when I booted an Electric Duet music disk I was really blown away with the hi-VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 1986 HINT 2 HOW TO GET HI-FI QUALITY SOUND FROM YOUR /// I have a modest component stereo system in my office where my two ///'s are also located. I decided that I wanted to try to hook the audio port of one of my ///'sventure game Contact: Powertools 1206 Karen Ave Austin, TX 78757 (512) 454-8201 price is $40.00 (NOTE: This is now in the WAP /// SIG PD) rahan 11401 Kensington Rd Las Alamitos, Ca 90720 for details. (1991: Try On Three) Apple Chomp (A Pac Man like Maze) Contact: Backwoods Software Co. 108 Marie Dr Downers Grove, Il 60516 price is $10.00 Capt'n Magneto An ad Vol. 2 No. 8 AUGUST, 1985 GAMES There are two games available for the ///. I have not seen them but hear they're pretty good. Not sure of the price. The Fruit Machince (slot machine) Card Games (black jack etc.) Contact: Mel Aste already sent in submissions, including ATUNC and TAU (Third Apple Users group). Murray Lampert President Canadian Apple /// User Group Group, 80 Antibes Drive, Suite 2805, Willowdale, Ontario. M2R 3N5; (Phone: 416-665-3622). The booklet will be free to all those who submit information for use in its assembly. Others who want the booklet will be charged for it. Thanks to the many who hav79C";"PRESS ANY KEY TO HALT LISTING"::202 1020#2,B$(I),16,B)ž#242:::1160Z=1#2;A$:"78A";A$Z=Z+1:Z>1842:::Z=1980*:=23:=0::"79C";"CONTINUE...?":1C$:C$<>"Y"C$<>"y"C$<>"N"C$<>"n"10 MENU.MAKER TEXT MODULESEG=0"MENU.MAKER"890&*X=11000: TEXT SLOW-DOWN LOOP ,X.1,180,22:2,280,21:2,2380,23:z:A$="LISTING "+B$(I),16,B)$=01:=0::"80C";A$;::12)>=23:=0::"fi quality sound! It really was beautiful. Here's what you need to get and do: 1 Y Connector - the bottom of the Y must be a pin plug to plug into the audio port at the back of your /// between the RS232 and the video output ports. The two Y tops printing, and do the correction by using a dictionary. Meantime, you may pick up a couple of improvements of the diction, or change a whole paragraph. Remember: once a decision is made, and pass its execution to a machine, or to a subordinate, it's finnow it, it's pointed out, and let you decide whether it's an error, or a special name, etc. The whole thing is a waste of time. Why should we give up our own confidence? It's much better to read your text carefully on the screen after typing and beforecludes only Joe's #1 to #5, plus the important #9: LOVE and #10: an ATUNC membership. #6. Word Juggler has a spelling checker. After finishing writing, you use the checker to pass through the whole text. If the checker finds the word "Juan", and doesn't k an A/// system I need to edit this Newsletter. For the time being, this minimum probably is also the optimum, if not the "full use". That means, I just don't need anything else. It is of course not perfect. But what you see is what you get. My list in The system utilities disks and manuals. 4. 3-EZ-Pieces disks and manuals, 5. A printer, 6. A full function word processor with spelling checker, 7. Apple II emulation disk, and 8. An apple II nibble copier. I wish to tell you what is the real minimum of985, and repeated in the same 1986 issues. The question is: "What do I need to be really functional on this machine A///?" In his opinion, the following is the "minimum A/// system" if you want full use from the machine: 1. 256 RAM, 2. 2 disk drivers, 3. APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 7, July 1988 The Minimum A/// System by Li Kung Shaw, 731-0829 In the May issue of Joe Dobrowolski's "Apple Users News & Views", he rerun an article originally published in its March and April l inch speaker under the ///'s cover to be disconnected until you unplug the Y connector from the back of your ///. From Apex Bulletin Board o cables into the Auxiliary input ports at the back of your stereo receiver. Dial in Aux on your receiver and boot up a game or a music disk and see what you think. I think you will be amazed at the sound quality. Note that this causes your little twobe terminated by male RCA phono plugs. HOW TO HOOK IT UP: Plug the Y connector pin plug into the audio port at the back of your ///. Plug both lengths of RCA phono cable into the connectors at the top of the Y. Plug the other ends of both RCA phon must be female RCA type phono plug connectors. 2 RCA phono cables - these come in varying lengths and you'll have to choose the one right for you. I usually go for the longest they have so I have some flexibility for later uses. Both ends must al, and you're responsible of all the subsequent mistakes and unpredicables commited in these later steps. Better check things yourself more times than the machine requires. A spellig check is a delegation of authority. It helps you become lazy, less alert, less responsible of your own work. Don't use it. #7 and #8, the Apple II Emulations. This is a matter of basic attitude of doing things. I'm using A///. As long as A/// serves my purpose, I don't care any other computer in the world. The more vari because of his freely expressed opinions about the ///. He calls it "a great machine, very easy to use and very clean". Woz waxes enthusiastic about SOS calling it "the finest operating system on any microcomputer ever, the greatest thing in the world" VOL. 2 NO. 2 WOZNIAK ON THE /// The January issue of BYTE Magazine contains a candid interview with Stephen Wozniak, co-founder of Apple and "father" of the ][. The article will interest many Apple /// aficionados, because of Woz's forthrightness andprogram, with 35 citations, and voted that honor by 85% of its owners, is the 3EZP.  35 85 Apple writer 31 65 Advanced Visicalc 15 41 Catalyst 12 38 Access /// 11 32 Word Juggler 10 53 all others > 10 total count 234 The single most used APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 7, July 1988 Most Used Programs by Allan M. Bloom The following is the survey result of the most used A/// programs by count and by % of owned. Name count %owned /// EZP always secondary. The most important part is you, yourself, your own talent, dedication, and love. #10: An ATUNC membership. No deliberation necessary. (LKS) feel satisfied. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) did not have an A///. Yet he wrote very well. Albert Einstein (1878-1955) did not have an electronic calculator. Yet he did a lot of meaningful calculations. To perform a really great task, the instrument is ning something not useful. If you need an Apple II, go to get an Apple II. That has nothing to do with the use of an A///. #9: LOVE. If you own an A///, love it. With love, you'll take the best care of it. You'll make yourself compatible to it. You'll eties you feel interested, the more confusion. How many spouses you need? You don't need me to remind you the potential trouble when you begin to show interest in others or other's. It's better to refuse to know anything else, because it's dangerous lear! Also "We did SOS three years ago, and the rest of the world still hasn't come close". This from an admitted partisan of the ][ who still resents the attention the /// received within Apple during its development. Those of us who own and love our ///s wersion, then three games by Mel Astrahan would be another suggestion. These are The /// Fruit Machine ($12) a slot machine type game, Apple /// Card Machine ($20) a blackjack game and Mr. Sandman ($20) a PAC-Man type game. All are from On Three and are domain offering (most of which is available from the ATUNC library) as well as a number of programs from other sources, like DA DataSystems line of programs. If you have a RGB monitor and do not have anything to use on it and like to have a little divee) Subscription to the The /// Magazine or On Three, both priced at $40/year. Both of these magazines advertise their own particular software offerings. Those from On Three are predominately their own programs, while The /// Magazine has a large publicng a battery (for when the computer is switched off) is not as easy unless you are willing to solder or rig up some alligator chips to your mother board. The kits provide good instructions for hooking up the clock. ($30 from Sun Data or $40 from OnThrry useful, especially in 3EZPieces, to help find which is the latest version of some of my files. The /// was built with a socket for the clockchip built in and you could buy the appropriate chip and install it yourself. However, the method of connectiics from your /// programs (like Business Graphics or Graph-n-Calc) or will even read in graphics files from AII like Print Shop. (From On Three $?? or the Networkers $35) A Clock Chip is something that I have come to depend on. I find that it is vebeen covered in the last few issues of this newsletter. This is available for $99 (Sun Data or Eric Eckert). Graphics Manager is a slick program that works either within the Desktop Manager or as a stand alone program. It will allow you to print graphata, $199) The next idea, for those that do not already have it, is Three Easy Pieces. This program, while limited in each of it modules, is extremely powerful because of the ease with which they work together. I won't say much more about it as it has ts (of your four) but emulates a //e well as well giving you a ramdisk when in the native mode. The current price is down from the $499 original list. Also available from Sun Data is a joystick for the above card for $16.95 with the //e adapter. (Sun D at you like. I'll start high and work my way down in price. A Titan III + //e card is an excellent gift for those who want access to the world of AII and A//e programs and games that require up to 128K in memory and 40 or 80 columns. It takes up 2 sloVOLUME 3 NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 1986 CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR THE A///er Its almost Xmas and your significant other still has not bought your present and doesn't know what to buy. You could leave this newsletter on the table and underline the paragraphs thill take comfort from the BYTE article. Maybe the world will catch up soon and fulfill Frank Moore's prophesy of the /// as "The Computer that wouldn't die". - Carlo Infante, Belmont CA in living RGB color (of course they do play in green and white too). Subscription to the Sun Times, price free. Worth much more than the price of subscription as they have both articles on the /// and prices of the programs and hardware that Sun Remarketing has for sale. The address for the above were all in last months newsletter. - Rod Whitten x 991, APO, New York NY 09098) // SIG NOTE: On Three now sells Stemspeller, a spelling checker for 3EZ Pieces. Call On Three at 206-334-8001 for more information. (July, 1991) ows and Columns will be reversed. Some reformating of the layout may be required, but it is much easier than typing all the original data in again. - Rod Whitten orary DIF file into a New Spreadsheet file. Make sure what you have here is what you had before, then Print this file to another DIF file. Do this by ROWS. ESCape back and Add a New DB file to the desktop and read the DIF file you just formed. The R Apple P (OA P)) this file to make a report with the layout the way you want the spreadsheet to appear, then the second OA P will give the Option of "5. Print to a DIF file". Escape to the main menu and create a new Spreadsheet file, then read this tempRow X Name1 Name2 Name3 Name4 Name5 Progrm1 Yes No No Yes No Progrm2 No Yes No Yes No Progrm3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Progrm4 Yes No No Yes Yes Print (Open No Yes No Name4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Name5 No No Yes Yes To do this I inserted a blank row (call it Row X) and typed the Category names into it. Name1 Name2 Name3 Name4 Name5 Yes Yes Yes Yes Progrm4 Yes No No Yes Yes What I wanted was: Progrm1 Progrm2 Progrm3 Progr4 Name1 Yes No Yes Yes Name2 No Yes Yes No Name3 No s as the Categorys and Programs as the First Item. This is a small version of the Table: Program Name1 Name2 Name3 Name4 Name5 Progrm1 Yes No No Yes No Progrm2 No Yes No Yes No Progrm3 Yes APPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL. 2 NO. 10 OCTOBER, 1985 Three EZ Pieces I recently had an occasion where I wanted the Columns of a 3 EZPieces database to be the Rows in order to do the sorting that I wished for a report. I had Name