On Tue, 21 May 2002, Erik S. Klein wrote:
> That sounds like fun, but I'm guessing that Sellam has
> already picked over most of the Bay Area by now! :)
Believe it or not there is still a lot of stuff out here, and there are at
least 20 active collectors in these parts.
This weekend I picked up a Byte-8 (an interesting variant without a front
panel) and last week I picked up an Apple //e with the Information
Appliances SwyftCard in it, and with key labels over the keyboard to
emulate the original functions on the Canon Cat. I have pictures of it
but haven't gotten around to posting them on my server yet.
The SwyftCard is interesting. It plugs into slot 3 (which is a special
slot in the Apple //e) and takes over the machine when it boots up. It
goes right into the word processing functions when it boots.
I tried typing in some sentences but I could not make any sense of the
user interface. It's supposed to be easy to use (that was Jef Raskin's
whole gig) but I couldn't figure it out.
Anyway, there is lots of cool stuff still around. Ya just have to DIG!
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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