3 Apr
2002
3 Apr
'02
5:54 p.m.
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Hans Franke wrote:
The funniest thing is opening up an IBM manual and seeing the name of John
Draper inside.
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Here's an
early reference, from the comments of the source code
to FIG-FORTH 1.1 dated 17-September-1979, one year after I met
him on exit from Harrisville:
; APPLE FORTH BY CapN' SOFTWARE
$40.00
; EASYWRITER (word processor for APPLE
; by CapN' SOFTWARE) $100.00
So it appears it was an Apple II package before
it was an IBM package.
Of course it was - I always thought we are talking
about the Apple Version. The IBM port was later on
developed. As a fun fact he told me that they used
an 8086 S100 system from Seattle Computer Products
for development, since they didn't get any hardware
info from IBM, except that the CPU is an Intel 8086.