I did a lot of productive work on an Osborne I, with a 52-character wide
display, but it was a bit of a PITA. Personally, I like a display that can
show 60 characters, as that corresponds to a typewritten line with the
margins I use. On an 80-column display, I get too much wasted space on the
right. 64-columns is a good width, and is what I use on my HP 200LX palmtop
(which can display 80x25, 64x18 and 40x16).
OTOH, the 104-character wide mode on the Osborne (with an external monitor,
of course) was useful for SuperCalc spreadsheets.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Barr [mailto:stanb_at_dial.pipex.com]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:25 AM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: 8 bit vs other Computers.
Hi,
ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) said;
> >
> > Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
> >
> >
> > For a real word processing you need 80x24 upper/lower case display,
>
> I also disagree with the display size issue. I did a lot of word
> processing on my TRS-80 model 1 (with lowercase mod)> It has a 64*16
> display.
Me too. And my Tatung Einstein with 80 column display card and running
ZCPR3 qualified on all counts.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Mon Nov 25 2002 - 14:39:01 GMT