Re: What was that thing called...?

[cshum@hsc.usc.edu (Chung)]

nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) writes:

>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.]

They also had a disk-based version called "Swyftdisk" I think it was... the
person behind this device was Jef Raskin, who later took some of the ideas
from Swyftcard/disk to make the Canon (?) CAT dedicated word processor box,
and also later went on to play a role in the creation of the Macintosh.

Correct me if I've made any errors; my memory is hazy.

Chung
cshum@hsc.usc.edu