Re: What was that thing called...?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5neo8e$4h2$1@Mercury.mcs.net>, Jorn Barger <jorn@MCS.COM> wrote:
>around the time of the 2e, some old Apple wizard came out with a weird
>all-in-one card that may have been mostly non-volatile RAM, plus its
>own OS on ROM that made it a word-processor/etc.
>the idea was it did a few things unbelieveably efficiently...

   "Swyftcard", I believe. [Just flipped thru a whole bunch of old
Nibble magazines; couldn't seem to find a single ad for it.]

>it sounded to me like a nifty experiment, but went nowhere AFAIK...

   From what I can tell, that never really took off. Neat and
efficient is not always a selling point-- especially when the bigger
brothers of such things had things that were quickly becoming a
requirement in word/text processing, like spelling checkers. You tend
to need to have some other drawing feature, like portability to make
up for the lack of features.

Nathan

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