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From: PHORWITZ@BBNG.ARPA
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Subject: SERIOUS word processing on the Mac
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Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 10:32:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 10 10:32:00 1984
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I'm seriously thinking of getting a word processor for my mother,
who is 

	1) a writer (books -- non-fiction and most recently a novel)

	2) having trouble with her eyes, which makes it difficult
	   for her to read fine print, and

	3) a virulent technophobe.

I am leaning toward a Macintosh, because it is

	1) cute

	2) able to display (and print) a variety of different
	   fonts and, more importantly, font sizes

	3) user-(you should pardon the expression)friendly.

The $64 ($3495?) question is: is there anything available for this
machine that a REAL writer would call a word processor?  (i.e. able to
support files longer than a few pages with transparent paging, leap over
tall buildings with a single bound, etc.)

I've got the rest of the summer to make up my mind (she's off writing
her novel at a writer's colony -- on a typewriter, of course) and I
don't want to buy a (shudder!) PC-clone unless I am forced to--but I am
prepared to be forced!

Helpful advice gratefully received by,

Paul