8 Jun
1998
8 Jun
'98
5:23 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Max Eskin once stated:
Right, but consider the other stuff. You need postscript, preferrably
a program for previewing the dvi file before printing, etc.
I think my pentium is faster ;) But that wasn't my original question.
Does anyone on this list actually use a REALLY old unusual machine
like IMSAI, CoCo, C64, Apple ][, etc. as their major word processing
system (unusual compared to Tony's AT)?
Used to. Between '86 and '91 I used my Coco II (maxed to 64K RAM, one
disk drive, Tandy Daisy wheel printer) for word processing, and even made a
few bucks doing resumes (not enough to recover the price of the disk and
printer though 8-)
Everything [1] for print was done on that system, including a humor column
for the university paper [2] using VIP Writer. Not a bad system; mostly
like nroff.
Now, I use either PE [3] or joe for most of my word proccessing needs, and
am learning TeX. What a neat system.
-spc (And TeX is the only program I know of to be garunteed bug free)
[1] Almost everything. A few columns were literally banged out on a
portable manual Smith-Corona, which is older than I am (and I still
have it).
[2] Check http://www.armigeron.com/people/spc/writings/murphy for
the columns. Transferring them from the Coco (aqnd VIP Writer
format) to the server was ... interesting, and involved two
intermediary systems.
[3] PE 1.0, copyright 1982 by IBM for MS-DOS 1.x and above. In the 11
years I've been using that program, I've not come across one
bug yet. Impressive program.