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Default 1981 Internet story
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In article ,
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My first computer was a Sinclair that you hooked to the TV. Learned DOS
on it, then on to TRS-80 which wasn't an "IBM word processor" by the
way, it was a Radio Shack.

The Trash80 had a max of useable RAM of about 30K. To fit into that Radio
Shack devised a superb word processing program the name of which now escapes
me. I use the TRS WP as long as I had the TRS80, which, by the way, originally
had no lower case. Eventually you could buy a chip and insert it to get lower
case.

My clients were not pleased to receive text in teletype form. So I would
compose the text and hand it to my wife who then typed up a proper copy with
upper and lower case.

My printer in those days was an enormous Anderson-Jacobson terminal which had
an IBM mechanism including the golf ball typehead.

Scripsit!!!
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