July 1979 — Vol 1 No 6

Overview

A short, summer-thin issue — and the first issue with a formal magazine-style masthead: officer roster, newsletter staff, contents listing, $1.00 cover price. Newsletter staff formalized: Bernard Urban Editor, Mark L. Crosby Associate Editor, David Morganstein Program Librarian. Trial dues structure adopted at the 6/23 meeting: $6.00 per 6 months. NOVAPPLE merger advances — minutes published jointly, three NOVAPPLE SIGs forming (Apple Nuts and Bolts, Games and Graphics, Business). Ted Perry of San Juan USD shares the status of the Call-A.P.P.L.E./KYDE TYME National CAI Library (1500 programs in documentation). Pi announces it is negotiating with ABACUS for a master copy of their program library (15 disks catalogued in the back of the issue) — the seed of the Washington Apple Pi Disk Library.

Table of contents

Articles

Editorial (page 2) — Bernard Urban

Summer apology for thin issue. Urges article contributions.

Minutes of 6/23/79 (page 2)

Trial dues structure: $6.00 / 6 months. Application form to be sent to current mailing list; non-respondents dropped by October. Meeting kept short to allow more show-and-tell. New officers met afterward for organizational planning.

Minutes of NOVAPPLE 6/28/79 (page 2)

NOVAPPLE elects Gerald Eskelund secretary by acclamation. Sets July 11 meeting on DOS; July 26 on Screen Machine by Bill Depew. Three interest groups formed: Apple Nuts and Bolts (Hardware), Games and Graphics, Business. Bank account established with Virginia National Bank. John Moon confirmed combined newsletter; NOVAPPLE mailing address: P.O. Box 10411, Alexandria, VA 22310.

"Update on Call-Apple's CAI Project" (page 3) — Bernard Urban

Includes a letter from Ted Perry (2331 St. Marks Way, Sacramento, CA) describing the National CAI Library built jointly by Apple Puget Sound Program Library Exchange and the KYDE TYME Project (Title IV-C software development grant). 1500 programs in documentation; mostly games/demos/utilities with a few CAI proper. Five-task program: in-depth documentation, modification for CAI mode, piloting, ingestion, and cataloging/distribution. Volunteers invited — send a blank diskette + SASE, get it back with utilities and documentation tasks.

"Changing 'Catalog' to 'C'" (page 4) — Mark L. Crosby

A POKE program that renames the DOS CATALOG command to C. Two versions provided (DOS 3.1 with volume-check disable; DOS 3.2 — which already has no volume check). Both for 48K systems. The DOS 3.1 version: FOR I = -22481 TO -22434: POKE I, PEEK(I+6): NEXT I: POKE -22482,195: POKE -16898,169: POKE -16897,0.

"Variable Speed Slow List" (page 4) — Craig Crossman

Reprinted from ABACUS July 1979. A 64-byte machine-language program at $0300 that, when BRUNed, lets you slow-list code at 10 speeds (press 0–9; 0=fastest, 9=slowest). Hooks into the keyboard strobe at $C000 and the LIST output vector. Works with Integer and Applesoft.

"APPLE Pi Program Library on the Way" (pages 4–5)

Pi is negotiating with ABACUS (California) for a master copy of their disk library. Tentative pricing: ~$3–$5 per disk plus blank disk cost. Disk volume listings published for volumes 001 through 015 (visible in extracted text), including titles like: - Vol 001: DEGLITZ, EDIT/ASSM, ASM, BRKPOINT, M/L TEACHER, TABLE OF SUBROUTINES - Vol 002: HELLO, LIFE, NJ LOTTERY, STATES AND CAPITALS, BINGO, COMPUTER ART, BLACKJACK, MOON LANDER, HANGMAN, ELIZA - Vol 003: BAGELS, GAMES SULLIVAN 32K, ALLEY CAT, PAYROLL/V4, SHAPE TABLE GEN, HIRES, ELIZA, STOP WATCH, TARGET SHOOT - Vol 004: LIGHT PEN, POWER/EXPONENTIAL/LOG CURVE FIT, LINEAR REGRESSION, VECTOR ANALYSIS, SWORDS AND SORCERY, POWERS TEXT ED., POWERS ASSEMBLER - Vol 005: SWORDS, APPLE-CHEM, DISK WORKSHOP, NATIONAL PRIDE, MORSE TRAINER, VOCABULARY REVIEW - Vol 006: APPLE.HIRES.PAK, MOIRE TAPESTRY, COLOR.KINESIS, SUPER.HIRES.GRAPHICS, PLOT.3-D, PLOT1–PLOT8, BESSEL.FUNCTIONS - Vol 007: PASTIMES, MORSE.CODE, I.CHING, COIN.TOSS, GIANT.TYPEWRITER, COLOR.SKETCH - Vol 008: APPLE.ORGAN, STORE DISPLAY, BUSINESS/FINANCIAL/SERIES, INTEGER TO APPLESOFT CONV - Vol 009: HERSCHEL HI-RES, FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM, INTERSTELLAR, DUCK SHOOT, NETFLOW.COST - Vol 010: APPLESOFT, WORLD POWER 6, SPIROLATERAL, POET, BIT BUCKET - Vol 011: METRICS (KITCHEN/TEMPERATURE/VOLUME/LENGTH/AREA), TAX 1040 '79, FRACTAL GRAPHICS, INFINITE.NUMBER.OF.MONKEYS, BIORHYTHMS, MUSIC GENERATOR - Vol 012: BOXER, BANZAI, RIDDLE, PIZZA, COLOSSUS, MADLIB, DRAGON, MOSHITILITY II, CLOCK CALENDAR, MUSICAL.WIZARD - Vol 013: STARSHIP ATTACK, HOME MORTGAGES, SUPER HOCKEY, FLASHCARD, PAINTER.PA, MASTER DOS COMMAND - (And more — listings continue in subsequent issues)

Club news / events / announcements

• Trial dues: $6/6mo
• Newsletter staff formalized
• Next Pi meeting: July 28, GWU
• Next NOVAPPLE meetings: July 26 and August 8 at Computerland Tysons Corner

Notable advertisements

None — the masthead now bears the $1.00 cover price but display ads are not yet present.

Key quotes

• "Please accept our apologies for the shortness of this newsletter. We did not get too many articles from you." — Bernard Urban (page 2)

Entities

People: John Moon, Bernard Urban, Robert Peck, Genevie Urban, Mark L. Crosby, David Morganstein, Susan Eickmeyer, Sandy Greenfarb, Jim Nielson, Gerald Eskelund, Ted Perry, Craig Crossman, Bill Depew Topics: Dues Structure, Apple DOS Commands, Computer-Assisted Instruction, KYDE TYME Project, Apple Pi Disk Library, Special Interest Groups References: NOVAPPLE, ABACUS, San Juan Unified School District, Call-A.P.P.L.E., Screen Machine, Apple Puget Sound Program Library Exchange, Virginia National Bank

Connections to other issues

• Follows 1979-06 — V01 N05 election; first issue under new newsletter staff
• Disk library catalogs continue across subsequent issues
• Apple PASCAL still pending from the same Q3 1979 forecast in 1979-06 — V01 N05

Open questions

• Did Pi's negotiation with ABACUS for the library master complete? Watch 1979-08 — V01 N07 onward for pricing announcements and disk availability.