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From: ericw@gemini.SGI.COM (Eric Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Laser 128 and also Appleworks on Old ][
Keywords: Laser 128 Appleworks original II
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Date: 24 Aug 88 21:52:50 GMT
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I appreciate some advice from the net at large.  I'd like to set my mother
up with a word processor.  Her school has Apple //e's so we'd like to stick
with Apple.  We have an old Apple II (from '78) with monitor, printer and
two disk drives (only 40 column display), still running DOS 3.3!

What word processors do you like?  From what I've seen of Appleworks, I like
it, but what does it take to run on a pre-//e?

For the money to make the old ][ a decent word processor (80 column board,
maybe some more memory, some kind of keyboard fix, etc) we could get a
Laser 128 ($470 last I saw).  What do you think of them?  How compatible
are they?

thanks very much,
Eric Williams

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