8 Sep
2007
8 Sep
'07
3:45 p.m.
At 11:01 AM -0700 9/8/07, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I thought that the Lanier WaPro was something called
"OneStep" or the
like. Wasn't MUSE an emacs addon?
I'm pretty sure that the version of MUSE I used wasn't an emacs
addon, it was a screen editor, and you went forward or back one
screen at a time, and couldn't scroll beyond one is on the screen one
line at a time like on pretty much any other system I've ever used.
Still it was very nice, and it was what really got my typing speed
and accuracy up. Not to mention the Harris Mini I used it on
probably couldn't have handled any version of emacs! :^)
A shame that no one collects the old word processing
systems; some of
them were quite remarkable in design. Star and Cat seems to be about
as far as people want to go.
I'm pretty sure that some people have Xerox 860's in their
collections. I do have a Tandy kind of like the M100 that was
basically only for writing. For some insane reason I picked it up in
the early 90's when it was being phased out, and it proved to hard to
get text on and off of it.
Zane
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