27 Sep
2005
27 Sep
'05
12:32 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
required." They felt it was necessary to tell
the potential customer
that they'd need a disk drive to use software distributed on disk.
Or, somewhat ironically, a word processor probably wouldn't be useful if you
couldn't save your work quickly and often.
Then again, could you do useful word-processing work on a cassette-based
machine? Anyone who use Atari 8-bit, C64, etc. -- was this common? I assume
that you'd load the wordprocessor via tape, then run the machine without
powering down and save your work(s) to a blank tape... but I don't remember
that as being common; I remember disks being much more common and practical.
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