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[Geoffrey]

I've still got my slide rule which was a required supply when I started 
EE at La. Tech in 1976...

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Hey! I've got a 1984 NEC Starlett laptop with wordstar in ROM. No floppy
> drives! Built in 300 baud modem, 32k ram.  The keyboard is really nice.
> Someone probably paid $3k-$5k for this thing new. I would have to refer
> to the manuals for all the 2 key commands to actually _use_ wordstar. I
> had a disk with visicalc a long time ago. But the 8" floppy drive is
> long dead! 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 10:06, Gene Matthews wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 09:55, Benjamin Dixon wrote:
>>
>>>If I recall correctly, Visicalc seemed to have broken into the market and
>>>the Apple was later supported by Microsoft products such as Excel.
>>>
>>
>>Ah, visicalc and wordstar.  Those were the days.....with my trusty Apple
>>II+.  No hardrive, just dual floppies and green screen.
>>
>>
>>gene
>>
>>
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