>
> At 07:22 PM 6/17/97 +0000, you wrote:
> >A while back, I "saved" some cartridges from being tossed. The label
> >says "Digital Controls, Learning Center, Multiplan (title varies
> >depending on cartridge), Registerd Trademark of Microsoft Corporations,
> >Copyright Digital Controls, Inc." The other titles I have are "Preview
> >1", "Lotus", "dBase II", "Wordstar", "IBM PC", and "Multimate". Anyone
> >out there know what these are and what they go to? Thanks!
>
> My first guess would have been an IBM PCjr because it has the only
> cartridge version of Lotus I've ever heard of. But Wordstar was definitely
> disk-based for the PCjr, in fact it had it's own version, Wordstarjr.
> Microsoft Multiplan came on cartridge for the TI99/4A, but I've never heard
> of the others being on cartridge format for that system.
This probably has absolutely nothing to do with it, but there was a thing
sold in the UK called a 'Simplifier'. It connected between a PC and its
keyboard, and had a number of 'function keys' on the top and some LCD
displays to label them. There were cartridges for most major PC
applications, including Lotus 1-2-3 (I happen to have that cartridge).
When in use, the displays would provide appropriate labels for the keys
-- for example 'Enter new cell'. You'd then get another menu on the keys
with 'Enter number', 'Enter Text', 'Enter Formula', etc. When you pressed
one of those keys it would send the appropriate keycodes to the PC to
perform the desired action.
You could, of course, also use the normal PC keyboard if you wanted to.
Has anyone else ever come across this device?
--
-tony
ard12_at_eng.cam.ac.uk
The gates in my computer are AND,OR and NOT, not Bill
Received on Tue Jun 17 1997 - 21:11:56 BST