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   Message 56,106 of 56,720   
   Petar Puskarich to Michael Black   
   Re: Apple III Intelligent Uni/Duo Contro   
   01 Apr 23 19:57:03   
   
   From: ppuskari@gmail.com   
      
   I KNOW this is digging up a zombie thread but I was just gifted a Lazarus   
   moment by a fellow collector that found something very special on an ex Apple   
   employee's old Profile he had laying around.......   
      
   We HAVE drivers for the UniFile AND DuoFile!!!!!!!!!!!!     I wish my card   
   wasn't absconded off with out of Tony's estate... Dang.  And all we had to   
   work with was Disk #2 of the 4 disk set of Uni/DuoFile utilities disks from   
   apple that I found on Ebay    
   and bought ONE for 80 bucks.   
      
   I'm now wondering if these cards were also sold by the guy that sold the   
   floppies.  We never had the drivers...  Tony and I were really close to   
   getting read to work we thought a couple nights before he passed.  The motor   
   was activating at least!      
      
   But yeah, does anyone have this Apple /// card still and have a Twiggy drive   
   to test with?     At this time I'll provide these drivers to only those   
   willing to help in the quest and might have the means to pull it off.  Once   
   things are figured out, I'll    
   upload them to archive.org or what not.   These drivers were just found and   
   gotten to me at 9:45pm CST on 4/1/2023 and it is def NOT a April Fools joke.   
      
   Thanks all!   
      
   Petar Puskarich   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   On Monday, July 25, 2011 at 9:46:23 AM UTC-5, Michael Black wrote:   
   > On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, mdj wrote:   
   > > On Jul 24, 5:07 am, "Bill W."  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> What it says may be deceiving if one is unaware of the possible   
   > >> meanings.  I initially thought as you did, but that Z8 processor gave   
   > >> me some pause.   
   > >>   
   > >> After some more research, I think it is more likely a Unifile/Duofile   
   > >> controller for the Apple III.   
   > >>   
   > >> The Unifile and Duofile were twiggy drives for the Apple 2 and Apple 3   
   > >> that were never released.   
   > >   
   > > Ah! That is certainly a better explanation... Having never seen twiggy   
   > > drives I didn't stop to consider that.   
   > >   
   > I saw a picture of the Lisa just this week and though "oh yes, the Lisa".   
   > It seems to have faded more than the Apple III over the years in terms of    
   > visibility, an expensive computer that wasn't sold for very long.   
   > It must have been the current issue of "Wired", there's something about    
   > the Steve Jobs "school of business" and there's a page of Apple products,    
   > which is quite compreensive. Just their photos with the model number    
   > underneath, but at a glance it seemed complete, certainly up to more    
   > recent times. Usually, these things just show the high points, leaving    
   > out things like the Newton.   
   > Michael   
      
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