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From: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: C-Plus: Worth $80 for WP
Message-ID: <947@usl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 13:40:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 26 13:40:54 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Oct-86 01:46:49 EDT
References: <1390001@hpvcla.UUCP> <758@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Reply-To: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Organization: USL, Lafayette, La.
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In article <758@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <1390001@hpvcla.UUCP> neff@hpvcla.UUCP (neff) writes:
>>Dave Neff ihnp4!hpfcla!hpvcla!neff or hplabs!hpvcla!neff
>
>The built in editor/word processor is generally considered one of the least
>effective features of the PLUS/4.  I would not recommend a PLUS/4 to your
>friend, perhaps a C/64, but even then I'm not sure you'll find the level of
>word processing features available that you're looking for.
>
>Anybody else have any suggestions?

If the friend has the cash, a cheap IBM clone may be the answer, at
least for semi-decent text editing (haven't seen a decent editor for
my "toy" C-64 or C-128, but maybe Emacs has me spoiled). A local
dealer is selling the  Leading Edge PC with the  Leading Edge WP,
monitor, two drives, and 512k of RAM for $1399, which sounds like a
pretty good deal to me (considering that a 128 with two drives and
color monitor would cost $1100, and it's nowhere near as powerful as a
PC-Drone).

Of course, if your friend wants to get in on the leading edge of
computing, he should get an Amiga :-).
-- 

      Eric Green {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!elg
        (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509)

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