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VK6BE > AMSTRA 13.09.09 07:25l 43 Lines 2008 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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To : AMSTRA@WW
Hi Ray and computermaniacs,
Ye I remember the Amstrad. They were a pretty advanced machine for their
time but still too expensive for me with a family to keep.
I started with a Dick Smith kit with a 2650 processor. It was OK for
playing simple games and learning a bit about Basic programming but
virtually useless for anything else as there was no convenient way of
storing data except with a taperecorder. - slow and not always a
successful exercise, and the amount of memory was tiny..
My next was a CMD 64 followed by a CMD 16 and the the CMD 128. After that
I went to a succession of PCs. By then the machines were becoming cheaper
and with HDDs much more convenient to use.
I really believe that the Commodore word processor Superscript was one of
the best I have tried even up to today. It had commands none of the modern
WPs I have tried can manage to perform. There was a FORMAT command which
formatted the work in proper paragraphing, and by highlighting and hitting
a button I could change from upper to lower case with a single stroke of a
key. There were other features too. It also waited for me to tell it what
I wanted it to do not like Word 7 that makes up its mind presupposing what
you might want it to perform, which annoys me greatly.Some of its
decisions I find hard to reverse. Try altering its automatic tabulating
and numbering of sentences!
With the Microbees while we were using them at the primary school I got
hold of an adaptation of WordStar and found that it worked quite well and
that 12 year olds, in spite of what the "expert" said, could handle it
very well. He didn't know much about the capabilities of children.
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
>I still have an Amstrad "portable" computer. It's more like a small
>suitcase than a computer. It has one of those yellow/green LCD screens
>that has to be front-lit, two, 720kb floppies, one serial port and an
>internal 2400bps dialup modem. The "engine" is a 4.77MHz XT.
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