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The Best of Ottalini #2

This PDF is the extracted text of files on disks included in the Washington Apple Pi’s Apple /// public domain collection, specifically APPLE-3-WAP-wap-02a and -02b. They are available on the WAP Apple /// DVD, or at your favorite file repository.

These are Dave Ottalini’s best Apple /// newsletters and articles from the 1987 issues of the WAP Journal. Here’s the table of contents:

TRAIL.COLUMNS (1987)

January

  • Sourceware products
  • Forth for the ///
  • SOS update

February

  • New Co-Chairman
  • Phase /// Update
  • Al Bloom joins WAP

March

  • /// EZPs upgrade
  • Business Basic on the GS

May

  • 3EZP Upgrade Dies
  • On Three News
  • Meeting and SIG notes

June

  • Troubleshooting
  • Titan Card problems

July

  • /// SIG Moves
  • Tip of the Month
  • Go Forth
  • ThreeWorks

September

  • Farewell to Richard Rowell
  • News from Sun Systems

October

  • Phase /// preview
  • ProFile for the office
  • New PD disks

November

  • Phase /// highlights and lowlights
  • New GS Basic
  • HyperCard

December

  • A look back at the year
  • Music on the ///

Other Articles:

A Plus: Article about the Apple ///
Taking apart the Apple /// demo program
Latest versions of Apple /// drivers
Kidword ///: A word processing program for the little folks
Latest versions of Apple /// programs
Bibliography of the /// Magazine for 1986
Bibliography of the /// Newsletter
What’s on the new member disk

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The Best of Ottalini #3

This PDF is the extracted text of files on disks included in the Washington Apple Pi’s Apple /// public domain collection, specifically APPLE-3-WAP-wap-03a and -03b. They are available on the WAP Apple /// DVD, or at your favorite file repository.

These are Dave Ottalini’s best Apple /// newsletters and articles from the 1988 issues of the WAP Journal. Here’s the table of contents:

TRAIL.COLUMNS (1988)

January

  • New products discussed: SOS Driver Optimizer & Graphics card

February

  • New PD disks discussed
  • Future disks
  • WPL program “PD.CON”

March

  • D.A. Datasystems puts programs into the public domain

April

  • Has Frank Moore Returned?
  • More news from Lt. Sykora

May

  • More Public Domain Disks
  • /// SIG’s New Helper

June

  • ThreeWorks update
  • Apple /// News

July

  • Sykora Software Update
  • On Three News
  • Sun Remarketing

August

  • Menu.Maker Continued
  • Menu.Maker Take Two
  • New PD Disk

September

  • More On Three News
  • Sykora Software
  • July SIG Meeting

October

  • Apple /// News
  • Another Graphics Board
  • Music MIDI Driver

November

  • Where Do I Find Parts For My Apple ///?

December

  • History of the WAP /// SIG
  • /// SIG Christmas List

Other Articles:

The Legacy of Daryl Anderson
Taylor Pohlman on GS Basic (Parts 1 & 2)
Bibliography of On Three for 1987
TAU.PD.CON: WPL program used for PD development

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The Best of Ottalini #4

This PDF is the extracted text of files on disks included in the Washington Apple Pi’s Apple /// public domain collection, specifically APPLE-3-WAP-wap-04a and -04b. They are available on the WAP Apple /// DVD, or at your favorite file repository.

These are Dave Ottalini’s best Apple /// newsletters and articles from the 1989 issues of the WAP Journal. Here’s the table of contents:

TRAIL.COLUMNS (1989)

January

  • Happy New Year
  • Robert Lissner on 3EZ Pieces

February

  • Reprint of January with comments on WAP 10th Anniversary

March

  • Telecommunications News
  • TerminALL operation
  • On Three

April

  • Spring maintenance tips
  • On Three News
  • PD Disks

May

  • A Visit to On Three
  • Apple Users Group International

June

  • Pascal Menu.Maker
  • Other PD Disks
  • Desktop Publishing on the ///

July

  • The Lisa Shop
  • On Three discontinues 800 number & BBS dies

August

  • New ThreeWorks update
  • PD Disks

September

  • Telecom Month at the WAP /// SIG
  • Bob Consorti moves

October

  • ThreeWorks update
  • Parallel printers
  • PublishIt!2 problems

November

  • PD Offerings
  • Kudos and comments
  • Power Supplies

December

  • A look back at 1989 and…
  • … A look forward to 1990
  • On Three news

Other Articles:

Best Public Domain disks for the holidays
Using the WAP TCS
Bargains for Apple ///ers in hardware and software
A history of 3EZ Pieces, an integrated Apple /// program
Finding parts for the Apple ///
More on finding Apple /// information
Apple Announces New Micro Line

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The Best of Ottalini #5

This PDF is the extracted text of files on disks included in the Washington Apple Pi’s Apple /// public domain collection, specifically APPLE-3-WAP-wap-05a and -05b. They are available on the WAP Apple /// DVD, or at your favorite file repository.

These are Dave Ottalini’s best Apple /// newsletters and articles from the 1990 issues of the WAP Journal. Here’s the table of contents:

TRAIL.COLUMNS (1990)

January

  • The Year Ahead
  • Repairs
  • Color Monitors for the ///

February

  • More on Repairs
  • Joe Dobrowolski
  • Prodigy commentary

March

  • WAP 10 year anniversary
  • National Apple Users Group Conference

April

  • 24-pin printers
  • Keyboards

May

  • Happy Birthday SARA!
  • On Three moves
  • ThreeWorks update

June

  • How to be a power user on the ///
  • Dealing with Sticky Keys

July

  • SIG survey results
  • Titan ///+//e update

August

  • 100th PD disk
  • Apple /// Donation Program
  • Mentor Program

September

  • More on the Mentor program
  • IIGIF
  • Apple /// to MAC

October

  • SCSI on the ///
  • On Three News
  • Pair Software News

November

  • CD ROM Drives
  • On Three News
  • Donation Program

December

  • Disk Drive Maintenance
  • End of the Year
  • PD Disks

Other Articles:

Color monitors and the Apple ///
Desk Top Publishing in Emulation Mode
On Three Bibliography for 1989
A new RGB circuit for the /// (by D. D. Meisel)

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The Best of Ottalini #6

This PDF is the extracted text of files on disks included in the Washington Apple Pi’s Apple /// public domain collection, specifically APPLE-3-WAP-wap-06a and -06b. They are available on the WAP Apple /// DVD, or at your favorite file repository.

These are Dave Ottalini’s best Apple /// newsletters and articles from the 1991 issues of the WAP Journal. Here’s the table of contents:

TRAIL.COLUMNS (1991)

January

  • Some Nice Words
  • A+/InCider
  • Dobrowolski News

February

  • Apple /// emulation on the Mac
  • February Disks

March

  • On Three
  • Printer Questions
  • Disk Library

April

  • ///+//e Cards
  • Apple ///ers Unanimous
  • EASY Accounting

May

  • Meetings
  • PD Disks
  • Directory Damage

June

  • A3 Donations
  • Jim Jutzin
  • On Three

July

  • GoBack ///
  • Budget Time
  • PD Library

September

  • Sun Remarketing
  • Paul Campbell
  • On Three

October

  • Disk Drive Speed
  • New BBS
  • 256K Upgrade

November

  • Bob Consorti
  • TCS
  • Mail

December

  • Holiday Gifts
  • Other Clubs
  • PD Library

Other Articles:

Cooling the Jets on your Hot Apple ///
How to buy and collect old computers By Tim Swenson
Review of the //GS version of DTM
The Apple ///: Death Bed or New Found Life
Using DTM Macros

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ON THREE CPS Universal Disk Driver

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We’ve located a copy of the CPS Universal Disk Driver that Bob Consorti wrote and distributed through ON THREE in 1987. It’s the only file on the non-bootable SOS disk included in the image (download ON_THREE_Universal_CPS_Driver). You can build this into your existing driver files with the SOS SCP.

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Basically, the earlier UniDisk driver only allows you to use the Apple Liron card and Apple 800K drives. This one was written in response to reader requests for similar functionality so they could access third party devices such as the CPS controller card and drive, the AE 800K drive, etc. You can also access your Liron/UniDisk setup with it.

Note that only one 3.5″ 800K drive can be included in a daisy-chain with 5.25″ Disk /// or MicroSci drives, and it must be the last device on the chain.

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The Best of Ottalini #7

This PDF is the extracted text of files on disks included in the Washington Apple Pi’s Apple /// public domain collection, specifically APPLE-3-WAP-wap-07a and -07b. They are available on the WAP Apple /// DVD, or at your favorite file repository. Or you can grab them below.

These are Dave Ottalini’s best Apple /// newsletters and articles from the 1992 issues of the WAP Journal. Here’s the table of contents:

TRAIL.COLUMNS (1992)

January

  • SARA and the GS
  • Why SOS?
  • Orphan Software
  • Paul Campbell News
  • How Do I: Get a volume ID using AppleWriter
  • How Do I: Deal with thermal intermittents.

February

  • New Members
  • Paul Campbell News
  • French and AppleWriter
  • Great Deals
  • Converting /// files to the Mac

March

  • /// SIG Meting
  • Titan Sale Continues
  • Graphics
  • Annie’s Craft in Japan
  • ATUNC News
  • Appreciation

April

  • Sources for A3 Repairs
  • ATUNC Disks
  • Price Watch

May

  • Titan Information on Disk
  • Titan Card Problems
  • Menu.Maker Upgrade

June

  • SARA lives in Cupertino
  • On Three update
  • Detroit Update
  • Japan Update
  • 24 Pin Printers and the ///
  • A3 Repairs

July

  • Apple Book Review and the ///
  • Desktop Manager Tip
  • Parallel Cable Problems
  • Download Problems
  • Titan Report
  • More Repair Sources
  • AppleWriter Tip
  • Modem Eliminators on the ///

August

  • On Three News
  • Test Your ///
  • Dr. Bloom Upgrades SIGN
  • Disk Notes

September

  • Lisa Shop Update
  • On Three’s New Products: Backup /// and GoBack
  • New Font from Paul Campbell
  • Parallel Cables
  • ATUNC News
  • Networking on the ///

October

  • SuperDrive Project
  • GoBack News
  • On Three’s Universal 800K Driver and the CPS drive
  • New SIGN program
  • /// Users

November

  • PD Disks Update
  • Transferring Files
  • Superdrive Project Update
  • Steve Truax Hits the Jackpot
  • 512K Upgrades
  • Paul Campbell and SARA Upgrades

December

  • Apple /// Systems
  • PD Rumblings
  • Communications Manager and 14,400 BPS Modems
  • Seth Mize in Boston
  • Apple /// Benchmarks
  • Macs, Apple ///s and Imagewriters
  • TCS Musings

Also this issue, Dave announced a major update to the popular MENU.MAKER program:

MENU.MAKER 6.0: A major upgrade to our /// SIG’s Menu.Maker program

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The Best of Ottalini #7

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The Best of Ottalini Bonus!

In 1992, Dave Ottalini published so much great /// content in the WAP Journal, they needed an extra disk to hold it all!

This PDF is the extracted text of files on disks included in the Washington Apple Pi’s Apple /// public domain collection, specifically APPLE-3-WAP-wap-08a and -08b. They are available on the WAP Apple /// DVD, or at your favorite file repository.  Or you can grab them below.

Note: These disks also include a couple of programs for the Apple ///, so you’ll want to grab the disk images too!

Here’s the table of contents:

Articles (1992)

  • Mainframe Batch Printing on the Apple ///
  • LaserJets and legal terms: The Apple /// at work
  • IBM: Should You Make the Switch?
  • Updating the Pascal MENU.MAKER Program
  • Apple /// Systems
  • On Disk Drives and Apples
  • Dealing with Driver Space Limitations
  • An Open Letter to John C. Dvorak
  • Apple Hardware Lubrication
  • Designer Disks for the Apple ///
  • Some Tricks of the Trade
  • New SARA Adventures
  • SOS vs. MS DOS
  • A Brief Review of StemWriter
  • The Apple StyleWriter and the ///
  • The Apple /// System Configuration Program (SCP)
  • Little-Known Utilities for the System Utilities
  • Apple // Family Used Computer Guide (May Prices)
  • Apple // Family Used Computer Guide (July Prices)

PD.LIBRARY

  • /// SIG PD Library additions by various months in 1992

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The Best of Ottalini Bonus!

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The (Mostly) Compleat List of Apple /// Drivers

One of the first things a hobbyist venturing into the deep, dark and still-largely uncharted waters of the Apple /// learns is that you need a driver for just about everything on (and in) the machine that isn’t the actual bits floating around.  Want to plug in a printer?  Need a driver.  Does that Apple II card work in the ///?  Probably… If someone wrote a driver.  Hey, look at that shiny rare /// card I just got on eBay!  Didn’t come with a driver though, so it just sits there.

Keyboard.  Disk drive.  Sound.  Video output.  SOS needs a driver for all of ’em.  And now we’ve moved far enough away from the ///’s “heyday” (such as it was) that we may have lost some entirely to the mists of time.  Or no one knows where to find them any more.  Witness the Great UniDisk 3.5″ Driver Hunt that took place recently.

Fortunately, there exists a list.  Less than (but still somewhat) fortunately, it lives on a disk image on the WAP DVD.  In AppleWorks database format.  So not inaccessible to hobbyists, but not exactly intuitively reachable for new ///’ers.  To alleviate some of the difficulty associated with learning about the /// (but mostly because I’m just massively lazy in a weirdly paradoxical way – my indolence comes at great personal effort), I extracted the database from the disk image (APPLE-3-WAP-shr-04a, obviously) and made a handy PDF.

The list is dated 30 May 1988, and I know Bob Consorti published at least one or two more as late as possibly 1995, so it isn’t complete but it’s pretty close. The file contains information for more than 75 known drivers: name, version, size, producer and description – it’s all there.

If I can find a later version in the WAP archive, I’ll update this file.  In the meantime, share and enjoy.

Apple III Drivers List (as of 30-May-88) drivers-thumb

Download the list (PDF | 75KB)

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The Best of Ottalini #8

This PDF is the extracted text of files on disks included in the Washington Apple Pi’s Apple /// public domain collection, specifically APPLE-3-WAP-wap-09a and -09b. They are available on the WAP Apple /// DVD, or at your favorite file repository.  Or you can grab them below.

These are Dave Ottalini’s best Apple /// newsletters and articles from the 1993 issues of the WAP Journal/  Here’s the table of contents:

On the Trail of the Apple /// Newsletters (1993)

  • JANUARY: SuperDrive Driver; Future Apple /// Projects
  • FEBRUARY: Software Development Fund; Paul Campbell; John Lormartine
  • MARCH: Software Development Fund; Printer Problems
  • APRIL: Software Development Fund; Lost Classics Project
  • MAY: Software Development Fund; Apple /// Information
  • JUNE: Software Development Fund; Video Problems; File Transfers
  • JULY: Threes Company BBS; Software Development Fund; ATUNC
  • AUGUST: Software Development Fund; Threes Company BBS; Titan Support
  • SEPTEMBER: Threes Company – WAP; Software Development Fund; ASCIDIF
  • OCTOBER: BOS3; Meeting News; Internet News
  • NOVEMBER: (Updated version of the October newsletter)
  • DECEMBER: BOS3 On Sale Now!; Honor Roll; Apple /// Forever
  • PD.LIBRARY: /// SIG PD Library additions for February through June: TICTOCK clock calibration utility; The Best of Ottalini 1992 disks; /// SIG Member List; Jeppeson Codefile Utility for changing Apple /// filetypes; Apple ///+ / 512K Memory Diagnostics disk; Dr. Al Bloom’s Pascal Utilites; boot disks for the Titan ///+II and ///+//e card sets; SOSTRAN

Extras

  • Parallel Printers and the Apple ///
  • ProFile Low Level Formats
  • Micro Courier Tips
  • Miscellaneous Apple /// Software Tips
  • My First Apple
  • File Transfer Between an Apple /// and an MS-DOS Computer
  • An Open Letter to Two Alive Magazine

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The Best of Ottalini #8

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