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stepleton:
Even just running the strings command on disk images turns up interesting things:

#Apple /// Pascal Compiler [A3/1.0 ]
(C) Apple Computer, 1983.  Disk /// Formatter Driver.g
!Name of Apple Writer /// volume :
@Insert APPLE WRITER /// UTILITIES diskette in built-in drive and

PROGRAM DOSTRAN;
-(*   COPYRIGHT  1980   *)
-(*   APPLE  COMPUTER   *)
-(* ALL RIGHTS RESERVED *)
-(*  12 SEPTEMBER 1980  *)
-(*      JIM STEIN      *)
"(* TRANSFER FILES BETWEEN PASCAL  *)
"(* DISKETTES AND DOS3.3 DISKETTES *)


Someone's homework?
{E** P. G**, MATH 4700-3, due 28 April 1983}
{This program is a stack oriented Virtual Machine Simulator that executes
 RPN internal source code. The program instructions and data are loaded into
 separate arrays from disk files.}


Hmm --- there's someone's Apple performance evaluation here. There might be some personal info on these disks that maybe ought to be treated with care.

Anyway, there's clearly a lot of Apple /// stuff in these backups.

Admin edit: name redacted

stepleton:
Random.dc42 has what looks like source code for the LisaWrite spellchecker:

{----------------------}
FUNCTION startSpelling: TF;
{----------------------}
(*Init Houghton-Mifflin's spelling software.  If something goes wrong, give an
 appropriate alert and return FALSE.  If all goes well, read in all dialog box
 check forms from {T1}Dbox.text, set up some constant strings for later use,
 and return TRUE.*)


This same text is found in APPS/APLW/APLW-UNITSPELL.TEXT.unix.txt in the Lisa source code released by CHM.

stepleton:
Moving on to Level II Video Board 4_22_83.dc42, I think it's more than what's found in the Hardware Reference Manual, at least as far as I'm familiar with it:

The following procedure will show an individual how to diagnose a problem on a video board.  These procedures are in three sections:
        o Section I - describes how the video board works.  It is adopted from the Lisa Hardware Manual.
        o Section  II - describes (section by section) procedures for troubleshooting a video problem.
        o Section III - contains the appendicies.  The Appendicies are:
                o  Appendix A - list of the possible video problems and the area or component that might cause them.
                o  Appendix B - list of components most likely to fail.
                o  Appendix C - list of components and their position on the video board.
                o  Appendix D - video board schematic

stepleton:
LisaTerminal, Crossley 5__.dc42 has very few ASCII strings that look like English text; mainly some phrase file contents for LisaTerminal.

stepleton:
Backup.Volume[12]/Backup.Volume1.dc42: Software for some financial function? Probably Apple /// as a lot of the backup disks appear to be. From the program's help function (one assumes):

H       H       EEEEEEEEE       L               PPPPPPPP        !
H       H       E               L               P       P       !
H       H       E               L               P       P       !
HHHHHHHHH       EEEEEEE         L               PPPPPPPP        !
H       H       E               L               P               !
H       H       E               L               P
H       H       EEEEEEEEE       LLLLLLLLL       P               !

Also some kind of demo for Apple /// productivity software.

Backup.Volume[12]/Backup.Volume2.dc42: continues the above.

********************************************************************
 *                                                                  *
 *                 Apple /// Managers Solutions Demo                *
 *                             by                                   *
 *                         Pete Burnight                            *
 *                                                                  *
 ********************************************************************

This software helps managers stay in the game!

a$="Managers stay in the game":secs=3:
300:a$="by being on top of the":secs=0:
300:a$="information they manage.":

Later....

$APPLE ///  BUSINESS SYSTEMS  (C)1982
 Enter Today's Date (mm/dd/yy).
 Enter Correct Time (hh:mm)....
  You Are at Floppy Disk Control
 ________________________________
                                 
  ````````~   ```````~  ````````
  ``     `\   ``    ``     ``   
  ````````    ```````\     ``   
  ``     `~   ``           ``   
  ````````\   ``        ````````
 ________________________________
                                 
     S   Y   S   T   E   M   S   
 ________________________________

Moving on...

+ __________________________________________
,|         Apple  ///  Pascal   1.1         |
,|__________________________________________|
Current  date  is 
!(C) Apple Computer Inc. 1981,1982
(C) U.C. Regents 1979
Version: Nov.  1982
Based on  U.C.S.D. Pascal II.1

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