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WHAT WAS THE APPLE /// SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FUND?

April 26, 2017Apple fund Software Development

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WHAT WAS THE APPLE /// SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FUND?

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Established by Washington Apple Pi in the early 1990s, the SDF was used to fund specific software projects for the ///. Through donations and contributions from WAP and ATUNC (the now defunct Apple Three Users of Northern California), the SDF helped fund the development of a Superdrive driver and BOS3 – the first upgrade to SOS in some 10 years. Other projects included a universal SCSI driver that works with the Syquest EZ Drive and most all SCSI drives (but required a specific and hard to find SCSI interface card to work) (one notable exception – the Iomega ZIP drive did not work because of the way it was built) and a replacement outboard power supply.