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." <[email protected]> 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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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.

Uhm. If you didn't;t want it to be an April fools joke, couldn't you have waited one day before posting :)

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On 4/1/23 22:57, Petar Puskarich wrote:

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!

If you were able to get Tony's attention for that length of time, my hat is
off to you. In my experience he was inside an event horizon from which no communication or matter ever escaped.

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On 4/3/23 12:27 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:

On 4/1/23 22:57, Petar Puskarich wrote:

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!

If you were able to get Tony's attention for that length of time, my hat
is off to you.  In my experience he was inside an event horizon from
which no communication or matter ever escaped.

Tony and I worked on the Focus card Apple /// driver (seems like
yesterday, I guess it was a few years ago now), including him having
shipped me a physical drive and I shipped it back when done. https://github.com/david-schmidt/FocusDrive3

I was really hopeful this would lead to more engagement with the
community, so I jumped at the chance when he presented it to me.

Back on the Uni/Duo Controller - I'm looking forward to disassembling it
and adding it to the driver project that gets attention sometimes: https://github.com/david-schmidt/a3DriverDepot

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