On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:30:12 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>Hehe... When I was at school, one of the teachers paid something like 

>trivial wordprocessor program in ROM, and when you press a button, it 
>types the whole lot out onto paper using the integrated dot-matrix (!!) 
>printer.
>
>It was the very height of technology. I mean, sure you can't actually 
>save your work, only print it. But it's so much better than a typewriter 
>because you can edit before you print!

Was that a "Starwriter"? If so my father had one and it passed to me then to my
brother. It was only a bit of an improvement on an electric typewriter but a big
step for man on the manual ones.
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Regards
     Stephen

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