Re: SCSI Card

[bill malcolm <wm65805@alltel.net>]

Great Stuff (Apparat) I was dealer for their stuff ( Lincoln Ne) back then.
Thanks for the great job.
bill ..


Eric Smith wrote:

> I wrote:
> > I wrote the native [Apple] DOS software for the [Apparat] EPROM programmer.
>
> Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote:
> > Then I should say thanks
>
> Wayne Stewart later wrote:
> > I think my reply came off wrong and sounded too flippant, sarcastic.
> > I meant I appreciate your writing the software. If I gave offense I
> > apologize.
>
> No apology necessary.  I recognized that you were just being terse, not
> sarcastic.
>
> One month, the plans for the full-page color advertisement in Byte fell
> through, so they ran an ad for the EPROM Programmer.  This generated an
> amazing amount of business for it.  We started getting calls from people
> that had bought the EPROM Programmer but now didn't know what to do with
> it!  You'd think people wouldn't buy such a thing if they didn't have a
> use for it.  One customer was so pissed off that he returned the package,
> which now had bullet holes through the package and product.
>
> At Apparat, I was also responsible for fixing some bugs in "The
> Extender", a package of added commands for Applesoft BASIC, and for
> porting a Pro Football Prediction program from the TRS-80 to the Apple
> using Microsoft's TASC compiler.  And I did tech support for the Apple
> products, and occasionally was involved in the storefront sales.
>
> For what it's worth, the software for the TRS-80 version of the EPROM
> programmer was written by Gary Kushner, who might have written the
> software for the IBM PC version as well.