Re: SwyftWare

[jtuttle@gmail.com (J.P.)]

mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20041031033502.11769.00003313@mb-m29.aol.com>...
> Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> 
> >Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> >> J.P. wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hey--
> >>> Does anyone have (or is capable of getting) a disk image of SwyftWare?
> >>>  I'd love to play with it, but I don't have it.  I asked Jef Raskin;
> >>> he has the disks lying around, but doesn't have the time (or possibly
> >>> an Apple II) lying around to copy them with.  Thanks.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Is that the software which shipped with the Swyftcard?  If so, I have it 
> >> in my archives.
> >> 
> >
> >I found the disk.  That's the good news.  The bad news is that only the 
> >reverse side, "SwyftCard ProDOS Converter" is readable (at least by 
> >Shrinkit).  The front side, "SwyftCard Tutorial", cannot be read by 
> >anything I've tried.  It's either damaged or not in the same low-level 
> >GCR format as Apple II diskettes.
> >
> >I'd be glad to send the image of the ProDOS converter to anyone 
> >contacting me privately.

I have no use for it, but I'd like a copy anyway :-).  Never know when
it might come in handy.

> Steve, I'd like to have an image of the converter.
> 
> The Tutorial side of the disk is, as Paul points out, in Swyftcard
> format, which is a 4+4 format.  The ProDOS converter may be
> able to convert it to ProDOS files.
> 
> -michael
> 
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Also, according to Jef, the 20-25 page long hex codes attached to the
LEAP patent are probably a memory dump (or disk image?) from
SwyftWare.  If anyone is bored enough to want to sit there downloading
and OCR'ing all the pages, there might be a copy there.  Not sure,
though, and I have no clue how you'd get a bunch of hex code onto a
disk image (let alone reformatting the text [to get rid of spaces,
etc.])...

Just something to think about.

It'd be easier if someone here just had a copy (I'm not really one to
say that, since I don't...).

-- J.P.