It's BASIC Week on RetroBattlestations

As an aside, somewhere I have anelectronic typewriter that uses a wide carriage version of that ALPS ballpoint pen plotter mechanism (you know, the one that was normally about 4" wide and turned up in the Radio Sahck CGP115, Commodore 1520, etc). Anyway, this thing is wide enough to take ful lA4 paper. It has a Centronics port, and accepts the normal commands for those little printer/plotters. In typewriter mode there are facilities ot draw bar charts, etc. Anyway, why I mention it is that it origianlly came with 2 sets of pens (now, alas all dried up). One was the normal black/blue/green/red set. The ohether incldued black and red something else that I've forgottoen and a 'pen' of tip-es like correction fluid 'paint'. This typewriter could delete a character by plotting over it with said white pen. Err.. yes -tony