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Old 23rd May 2020, 12:58 pm   #56
SiriusHardware
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Default Re: Early personal computers - what for?

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Originally Posted by Croozer View Post
I had a Sinclair Spectrum when I started high school. It would have been capable as a word processor but nobody ever used it as such.
EERRRRP!! Wrong, I'm afraid. The Spectrum, like virtually every other computer ever, had its 'power users'. Those of us who had microdrives (and managed to keep them working for long enough) ran productivity software like TASWORD which even generated its own high resolution font.

All my written correspondence in that period was composed on the Spectrum and laboriously eaked out in 'Letter Quality' mode on whatever dot-matrix printer I had at the time. There were programs which would print out a text file as a graphics image so it looked exactly like typewritten output. Very slow, but unlike me, typing, it didn't make any mistakes.
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