Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!tornado.Berkeley.EDU!cshum From: cshum@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Chung H. Shum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple II hard drives stuff... Message-ID: <1991Apr29.210101.24326@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 29 Apr 91 21:01:01 GMT References: <415@alchemy.UUCP> <1991Apr29.005248.16713@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Organization: ucb Lines: 31 In article sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth D. Kadesh) writes: >Anyone out there remember a "revolutionary" (my word) device called >the Swyftcard? It was an expansion card that contained a basic >Appleworks type program in ROM - a word processor (with an amazing >search algorithm), a terminal emulator [note: I could be remembering >this stuff incorrectly - it's been a couple of years] Yeah, I remember this thing... they also had a disk-based version called Swyftdisk. >It was designed by one of the guys who worked on the Macintosh, but >left early on in the development for some reason... I think his name was Jeff Raskin (I remember the old ads in A+ with Raskin and Woz where Woz says "if I had thought of it, I would have built it in myself" or something like that). He later went on to design a dedicated word processor for Canon (I think) called the Cat (not sure about that either) that used the "leap" key things that Swyftcard used. >[my memory is truly failing me at the moment, and I hesitate to say >something totally inaccurate] > >The point being that this Swyftcard is exactly what Todd is talking >about. Well, maybe not exactly.... >It didn't catch on, as far as I can tell. Maybe because AppleWorks came out soon after it? cshum@ocf.berkeley.edu "My name is Wu-lung Chen, but my friends just call me Wu-lung Chen."