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From: coryc@sequent.UUCP (Cory Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: WP for T1000
Message-ID: <27987@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 90 05:54:08 GMT
References: <37870@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: coryc@sequent.UUCP (Cory Carpenter)
Distribution: comp.sys.laptops
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
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In article <37870@apple.Apple.COM> dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) writes:
>Does anyone have a good recommendation for a SMALL word processor for
>the Toshiba T1000?  Ideally it should not require more than 30-40K of
>disk space.  Printing and WYSIWYG stuff is not at all important.  All I
>need is word wrapping and the ability to save files as ASCII text.  I
>plan to do all my formatting on the Mac...

Hmmmm.  Good, and 30-40K.  That sounds almost mutually exclusive to me.
MS-Word V3.1 will fit on one 3.5" disk with a bit of space left over for
files (sorry I can't give you exact space requirements here -- I don't
have my T1000 at hand right now). 

The word processor I use most often is PFS Professional Write, but that 
requires three disks, one for the main program, one for printing, and
one for data.  Dan, since it doesn't sound like you want to do any printing 
from the T1000, you would probably be able to get away with one disk.  
Pro Write is a pretty nice program, and is easy to use.  It will save 
in about six different popular formats, including flat ASCII, but there 
wouldn't be much space left over on the program disk for files.

The best compromise I've seen for on-the-go writing is the one that came
with my T1000:  Borland Sidekick (Obviously I bought my machine early
on, before Toshiba started bundling MS-Works with the T1000.)  I used
Sidekick to take class notes in college for a year, and it worked quite 
well.  The drawback to Sidekick is that it's not exactly what I'd call a
high-tech word processor.  I would class it as a text editor, and
although you can use it to do anything a word processor can do with the
exception of spell-checking, it isn't exactly easy to use:  It's all
control-key combinations.  However, it does save files in flat ASCII 
and does word-wrapping, so I guess I've met your basic criteria, Dan. ;^)

For more information and advice on the T1000 and other Toshiba products,
you may want to try the Toshiba BBS.  It's a long-distance toll call
from my neck of the woods, since it's in Irvine CA and I'm in Beaverton
OR, but I've found it to be a very worthwhile source of information and 
a whole lot quicker than writing a letter.  (I downloaded a cabling 
diagram that enabled me to build my *own* external drive for about $50 
instead of paying $280+ for it!)

Since I don't have my T1000 at hand, I can't give you the BBS number
right now (the one drawback of storing information on disk is that you
can't read it by hand...).  I'll post it soon for the general
information of the .laptops reading public -- unless someone else beats
me to it!
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