Hi Hank.

>The book one bought back then, Starting FORTH by Leo Brodie, had just published 3 years before I learned FORTH, in 1981. So you were actually pretty close.

I wasn't far behind: I started learning FORTH in 1983. I hand-typed an assembly listing for the FORTH kernel into my Apple //e, which took a couple of weeks. I then wrote a bunch of FORTH utilities, including an editor so I didn't have to type one line of code at a time. Finally, I wrote a FORTH interpreter in AppleSoft BASIC and published it in Nibble magazine so others could play with it too.

Doug