Hi
I saw the other Swyft today.
I think you were in Forth once and didn't know it.
You shouldn't need a disk. The disk is just for saving
things you write and not needed for booting.
To get into Forth, you press the button after powering
on. You then hit the return.
At this point you should see the OK prompt.
If you type " words " and return at this time you won't see
anything except the OK prompt. This is because you are
in the user vocabulary. If you now type " forth words "
and return, you should see a lot of words.
To return to the editor, just type " re " and return.
There is also some way to enter forth from the
editor. We know this because Bill had saved some
source code in the editor. I know how to do this
on the Cat but it didn't work on the Swyft. It'll
need more investigation.
The disk should be a 720K disk but I've had good
luck using 1.44m disk. The drive on the Swyft
may be different and be more fussy on requiring
the right type of disk.
In the above when I say to type something,
don't type the " . I just put that there to
separate it from normal text.
Give it a try.
The machine Bill has is serial # 11. What is
your serial number?
Dwight
