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nGenesis of Quark Software
______This is some Apple III
software that I bought at an auction. It comes with 8 disks. Since I
do not have an Apple III, I am making up my mind rather or not to
sell it. I know how valuable it is for those who have Apple III's and
even to the Apple Industry. If Visicalc saved Apple, then Quark saved
Macintosh. In fact, if I sold it on eBay, pooofff, it is gone, even
if I found an Apple III two years from now, it would be gone. I
checked them using Apple II utilities and each disk is listed as
BACKUP 1 through 6, then you have your utilities disks and hard drive
diskette. It is easy to tell that the printing, eg. BACKUP VOLUME 2,
is factory produced, not at all unusual for Apple programs back
then, since most programs came with a program disk and then a backup
program, ... or they would state you could by one backup for 10
bucks. After that, of course, you had to the original price for the
disk that you had already purchased. I call it, "Legal criminality."
A 5.25 disk can go down for a myriad of reasons, including peanut
butter, scratches, heat, bad disk drives, and, often, for no apparent
reason.
_____ Check out these document pages
about the software I have. Note - these have BACKUP written on them,
so someone else took the non-backups, but lucky for me and you, these
are safe and sound with me. Amazing, that we are probably looking at
the Genesis of
Quark, 1981. It is amazing! Here is more information, I found,
specifically about
Word
Juggler. Word Juggler was Apple III's FIRST wordprocessor, even
beating Apple in creating a wordprocessor for its Apple III.
_____ The disks are easily read by
Apple II utilities disk. Unfortunate, the first six diskettes, sad to
say, have nothing on them, I believe. I think those disks were
supposed to used by the user to back up the original disks. I am
pretty sure that Copy II Plus would copy the last two disks, which
have system software on it. Of course, they would have to be copied
using the BIT COPY program of Copy II Plus. I would use version 9 if
I had it and would write protect the III disks. Now, I may be wrong
on the 6, but it shows nothing on them, but no space available, so I
figure they are formated in SOS. Since I do not have an Apple III, I
am unable to experiment with them to see if these can be copied but I
bet these could be copied. It seems to me, if they can be read using
Apple II Utilities disk, they can be copied. I'm not copying them
unless I find an Apple III.
_____There are lots of places for
Apple III information. It does appear that these diskettes can
possibly be copied by Copy II Plus version 9.0 on your old Apple IIE,
but I would sure copy protect the software before you attempted to
copy it. Copying these disks, if you are using them, is absolutely
mandated. You think these things are rare?
_____So I write to Quark for
information. Check out more links.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Hill [mailto:okharpman@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 2:28 PM
To: cservice@quark.com
Subject: APPLE III QUARK
I have a notebook with 5.25 disks in it. It is called
"Learning to Use
Profile," I think. It has a section in it named "Apple Polishing,
Office
Automation, Software for the Apple III From Quark." This must have
been the
beginnings of Quark as we now know it. Do you have any
information on
theses disks? There are 8 disks, and about how many Apple III
programs like
this did you sell. What was the cost on them back in 1981? I
have ONLY the
backup copies, which are in pristine condition.
Thanks Dale Hill
This link does provide some info on Word Juggler, the first
program Quark
made:
LINK
4
LINK
5
And for pricing scroll to the bottom at:
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our
Customer Service
Thank you,
Brandy Schaneman
Thanks Brandy for your help
and more links.
Word Juggler
----295
Manual .....35
Mail Juggler
.....296
Mail List Manager ---
35
Typeface I
-----175
Lexicheck ---
149
Legal Dictionary ----
85
Discourse -----
125
Catalyst ----149
Total = $1310 <=== This
would be the total amount if you bought the whole program. I have
read the disks using my IIGS and Apple II System, and the first 6 are
simply listed as backups. So, if you are going to use this program,
it would be expected that you will have a hard drive.
DISK 7
SOS DRIVER... IIISOSFILE....33
SOS KERNEL... IIISOSFILE....44
SOS INTERP... IIISOSFILE....28
SYSTEM.MISCINFO ... Pascal Data ...1
System. Pascal... Pascal code ...65
System Startup .... Pascal Code ...3
System Starlib .... Pascal Code ...4
Profile. Driver ...III SOSFILE 9
Disk 8
SOS. Kernel IIISOS FILE 44
SOS. DRIVER IIISOS FILE 21
SOS INTERP Pascal Data 28
SYSTEM PASCAL PASCAL DATA 51
SYSTEM Misinfo ... Pascal Data 1
System Startaup Pascal Code 66
6 Files Listed 258 Blocks used 42 Available.
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