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I'm wondering what happened at the other of the wire service uploads. Were they vetted? Checked? Edited? Or did they just get sent out to subscribers automatically?
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That brings back memories, I used PageMaker to make our high school yearbook in the 90s :)
Me too! I really loved PageMaker, and used it for most of my papers into college as well. I moved away from it when they made InDesign...
I bought a Model 100 literally last week. Going to build a little raspberry pi into a piece of wood for it to talk to. Other than that, it would be nice to be able to take a note on it and transfer it to a modern computer. Not sure the easiest way to hook that up as I have no disk or cassette drive for it. Maybe a cable to go from cassette interface to audio and some software to decode the audio signal that would rec…
Funny, I sold several at the Sunnyvale swap meet last week. They’re awesome. I saved my teenage summer earnings to buy one and used it to do physics simulations in high school.
Sadly I'm stuck with Apple's "butterfly" keyboard from one of the lower levels of hell.
A modern version of the TRS-80 Model 100 would be a pretty amazing thing. Along with the Psion and eMate were amazingly production little machines.
There is the FreeWrite [0], which seems to be targeted at just writers, which is in some respects the spiritual successor to the TRS-80 Model 100. I could swear I saw at least one other Kickstarter with something similar, but this was the only one I could find. [0] https://getfreewrite.com/ Edit: Here’s another similar product called the AlphaSmart [1], but this one was ultimately discontinued. [1] https://en.m.wikip…
I had a TRS-80 Model 200 for a while, so this brings back some weird memories. I regret getting rid of it, really; it'd have been fun to have it around to bring to coffee shops for writing sessions now. (Possibly) interesting trivia: the linked article mentions the AP used a typesetting system called ATEX. This was a big dedicated terminal/server system that basically used plain text with markup, similar to troff or…
I had to write all of our product manuals at my first engineering job using XyWrite, which did not have auto-save. After losing a few pages due to a power failure and not having saved often enough, the owner of the small company put a timer on my desk set to 10 minutes. When it went off, I had to save to disk (3.5" floppy, IIRC!) and reset the timer. I hated that thing!