Episode 8: Bob Consorti

In this episode, we talk with Bob Consorti, who was president of On Three. Among the notable achievements of On Three were the long-running On Three magazine, Desktop Manager, BOS (Bob’s Operating System), a 512K RAM expansion card, device drivers, and many other things. Topics include the founding of On Three, the development of the 512K card, On Three’s internal development environment, emulation, and much more!

• On Three magazine scans
• On Three 512K Memory Board
• UniDisk ///.5 Driver
• BOS (disk images at apple3.org)
• BOS User’s Guide (PDF at apple3.org)