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- From: macgyver@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (MacGyver)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Managing notes (was Re: Notes for writing)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.211536.21339@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 13 Oct 92 21:15:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cis.1992Oct13.211536.21339
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- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
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- >I think that for me (and many of us under thirty :)) a computer is
- >_essential_. There's just no way to cross-reference hundreds of
- >scraps of paper, if you, like me, tend to write on anything handy
- >(I've tried carrying one notebook rather than several, but that didn't
- >work either).
-
- I know what you mean, that's one of the problems I'm having..
-
- >I used the Macs in my office and my SO's Mac for years -- then bought
- >myself a Mac PowerBook 140 as soon as I could get one. (Actually, I
- >prefer to write with emacs, but I'd just as soon not keep stories on a
- >shared Unix system, or worry about dialing in, or about the machine
- >being down. No, I don't care for Mac implementations of emacs.)
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- Hmm... I have a Power 170 myself. But carrying it around to use as a
- notebook sounds too crumablesome...
-
- Thanks for the input...
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- Mac
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