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Re: XEP80 emulator via Pi Pico

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TT> Some of use prefer to use the same software we grew up with. :) I did a
TT> my school reports on AtariWriter until we finally got a PC when I was i
TT> school in the very late 80s.

The Atari I had back then didn't have any peripherals at all (storage or
printer or anything), until I got to HS and a buddy I met there gave me a
410 tape recorder. The XT w/ a really crappy MX-80 printer is what I had
to use. At first with WordStar 2000 and then with WordPerfect 5.0 (then
5.1). WP51 was pretty darned great, for being non-wysiwyg especially.
It's not my favorite, though. While I am not a fan of GUI things in
general (GUIs are for opening side by side terminals!), my favorite word
processor is an old version of MS Word for 68k Mac. I never owned one of
those back then, but I did use them plenty in HS. This version would let
you disable all menus and dropdowns so that you just had a wysiwyg text
window. It seemed smooth and sleek to me at the time, compared to the
gross/ugly Windows word processors (including Word).
Of course the problem with writing long things on the Mac is that you
were bound to lose your work at one point or another :).

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