So, why are you ignoring CP/M? My old Kaypro II didn’t make it through the millennium — or even the Game Nineties, come to that — but I can buy a used one online for about $200. And for another #8.00 I can get Zork on a floppy.
It will be a lot of work to transfer all my old WordStar files into Scrivener, but I’ll do it in a heartbeat as soon as the CP/M version becomes reality.
Ah, Kaypro, which was the closest I ever got to buying a CP/M computer; what is it the ham radio guys say about the old buckets, boat anchor. Nicest software design though. I had already had an affair with an Osborne, though, and was tainted.
In fact it was typing a luminous John Fowles chapter into WordStar on the Osbornes’s little screen that hooked me on the magic of fiction itself.
I held off, though, stayed with typewriters some years. But then, there was the Mac. This I kept with until the laptops couldn’t keep up with the consulting with corpish clients, then in Europe (though Macs esp. MacBooks are all the rage now), so with great reluctance, I switched.
I wouild do it again, comes the money, but that would include all the software I use, so would be substantial. Well, not all, as now you can run Win10 alternately, a great thing, esp. as it is not too bad. Hmm. Actually, I could get just the laptp now, plus a non-free copy of that OS. We’ll see…
C. (not intentional rhyming, but there you are, serendipitouswise…)
So is this what this forum has become? A place for old fashioned geeks and dorks (myself included) to talk about bygone electronic components of which we dream Scrivener could work on? Hell yeah
“Electronic components? Hah! When I wrote my novel there were no electronics! I had to draw the Scrivener window on a piece of wood, and re-draw it every time I made a change in the Binder! You folks that had electronics were lucky!”
Oh, well, you were lucky. We used to dream of a piece of wood! We had to chisel ours – Binders and all – out of stones. And no Scrivenings mode then, because our poor mum had no kind of money for a wheelbarrow – what with seven mouths to feed.
[size=70]note to self: stop reading this thread in corp meetings… it’s hard to explain the laughter when you forget to mute your phone and they are talking about less than humorous things
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