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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 131180" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Back to the Amstrad PCW, I forgot to say ...... </p><p></p><p>The PCW - which appeared well before the Amstrad "PC" - was a huge success because it directly copied the previous audio systems strategy, ie, just one power supply inside the processor/monitor single unit, the printer also getting power from that, so the "whole package" was ridiculously cheap, compared with PC equivalents.</p><p></p><p>Locoscript was about the best Wordprocessing package, at that time, with pull-down on-screen menus (most alternatives still used command lines!). The "near letter quality" dot matrix printer was great, when most only had 9 pins, and 24 pins was very expensive, and laser printers were still rare (and inkjets not yet invented!).</p><p></p><p>The above links mention a "700 page manual", but most of that was actually an exhaustive list of all cp/m commands, which most people never used, and in fact the wordprocessing was very user friendly (for that time).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 131180, member: 192438"] Back to the Amstrad PCW, I forgot to say ...... The PCW - which appeared well before the Amstrad "PC" - was a huge success because it directly copied the previous audio systems strategy, ie, just one power supply inside the processor/monitor single unit, the printer also getting power from that, so the "whole package" was ridiculously cheap, compared with PC equivalents. Locoscript was about the best Wordprocessing package, at that time, with pull-down on-screen menus (most alternatives still used command lines!). The "near letter quality" dot matrix printer was great, when most only had 9 pins, and 24 pins was very expensive, and laser printers were still rare (and inkjets not yet invented!). The above links mention a "700 page manual", but most of that was actually an exhaustive list of all cp/m commands, which most people never used, and in fact the wordprocessing was very user friendly (for that time). [/QUOTE]
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