[Coco] The terrible Scripsit

[John Donaldson]

I used Telewriter 64 for a LONG time. I set to 50 character mode and the screen 
looked really great and printout was great. I did some of my first resume's 
using T64 and a 24 pin printer. I did not go 80 column until I got my OS9 68K 
system from Paul. 


John Donaldson




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From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <dennis-ix at maltedmedia.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, February 11, 2013 12:56:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] The terrible Scripsit

At 12:43 PM 2/11/2013, you wrote:
> Scripsit's quirkyness is a product of its times, in my opinion.  I remember the 
>first time I logged onto a unix system and had to use vi -- that's still in use, 
>and has all kinds of non-intuitive behaviors.  And after a while, you kinda miss 
>it... :)


Really true. I had disliked the available CoCo word processors so didn't use 
them (I kept using my Model I as a word processor until 1992).

But I did start to write one for the CoCo ... and speaking of product of the 
times! I had created it so that the screen contents MOVED over top of a FIXED 
window at the center like a typewriter platen moved the paper around the 
type/ribbon guide. There was no cursor because whatever you were typing was 
always in the very center of the screen. I sketched it in BASIC and never got 
beyond that because it stopped making sense as people stopped using regular 
typewriters.

You can't see the future.

Dennis







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