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Wrote a lot of term papers in Word Writer (printed on a Star NX-10C). This is a delightful thing to see.
by classichasclass 4y ago
Wrote a lot of term papers in Word Writer (printed on a Star NX-10C). This is a delightful thing to see.
- tssva 4y agoWord Writer 2 and a Commodore MPS-801 printer got me through high school.
- simmons 4y agoWord Writer 4 and an Okidata Okimate 20 printer, here. Some years ago I wrote a quick-and-dirty program to convert the files to HTML [1]... only to be absolutely horrified at how awful my writing was as a teenager. ;) [1] https://cafbit.com/post/migrating_legacy_documents_from_word/ https://cafbit.com/post/migrating_legacy_documents_from_word...
- Jaruzel 4y agoThe MPS-801 was a uni-directional printer, with a coil spring to pull the head back to the left hand side. Other than making it slow, it also flew back via the spring and hit the left side with a loud thunk after ever line, which made printing stuff out late at night when everyone else was sleeping, very problematic.
- tssva 4y agoIn high school, if needed, I was always able to turn on the charm and talk my way into being able to turn papers in late without penalty, so I was never up late enough printing a paper to disturb anyone. I left my C64 behind when going to college so the MPS-801 never disturbed anyone there either.