27 Sep
2005
27 Sep
'05
2:13 p.m.
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
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.
On TRS-80, I ran Electric Pencil and Scripsit.
Both had had some trivial mods to also support TRS-232 serial
printer interface and Exatron Stringy Floppy.
The hardware had the Elcompco mods to support Ctrl key, lower case, and
reverse video.
Overall: NOT RECOMMENDED to use tape.
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