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- From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Text Editor Hardware
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.092349.23860@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 09:23:49 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.090433.25744@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <tooraj.712242226@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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- In article <tooraj.712242226@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Tooraj Enayati) writes:
- >davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles) writes:
- >
- >>Has anyone come across any hardware which is basically a text editor ? I
- >>am looking for a machine which is cheap and portable and which can
- >>transfer ASCII data to an from an IBMPC compatable. A reasonable keyboard
- >>would be required.
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- >Yes, there are dedicated wordprocessors around, by Brother, Canon, etc.
- >They are usally bulky and expensive. just get an old XT with mono
- >monitor and some PD word processor, it'll be much cheaper.
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- Ahem ! I said portable - you cant use an old xt on a train very easily !
- I also said cheap !
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- Davei
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