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Electric Pencil for the TRS-80. Now *there* was a great Word Processor! ;-)
steve arrants
Stephen Arrants
Manager of Technical Communications
ROI Direct.com
415.439.7551
www.roidirect.com
-----Original Message-----
From: RUBOTTOM, AL [mailto:ARUBOTTOM -at- SENSORMATIC -dot- COM]
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 3:54 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Re. Tools: Word/Weird?
Man, I *really* liked VolksWriter [now I'm dating myself], since it
exploited the keyboard layout [the *first* IBM PC keyboard, that is, with
function keys on the left] so beautifully. Alt, Ctrl & Shift combos were
never so swift as in VW Deluxe. but it too is long gone.