HERE is a blast from the past ~ the only picture I could find online of the Sharp Fontwriter all-in-one wordprocessor I used to use. Which is still in storage at a friend's house... but utterly old and incompatible ~} though it does, apparently, convert 
wordprocessing files into ASCII, which can (somehow, and I've no idea how) be transferred to computer via oldfashioned disk.I bought it on special offer for £350 from a shop on Tottenham Court Road some time in 1996...
How I loved that machine!
Illusrated: top left Sharp Fontwriter ~ like mine this was the poshest machine in the range with full screen. Bottom right: an older model by Brother ~ basically a typewriter with 4 or 5 line screen and disk drive...
ROSETTA STONE JAPANESE
"And now while I'm setting up Rosetta Stone here's a video clip of a dog I'm looking after for ten days"... and what a friendly performer the trotterdonkey fuzzy doggie is... it's worth watching 1 min 15 seconds in just to see it...
(Don't bother with the rest of it, unless you're seriously considering learning Japanese.)
There are no floppy disc drives any longer in new computers--technology has advanced so fast, especially with computers. It is exciting.
ReplyDeleteGledds,
ReplyDeleteI had the Brother typewriter pictured. It was a dandy. I had it a long time and got through college on it.
Love you.
I can't remember the name of the first word processor I used but it was very similar to that!
ReplyDeleteWeren't they amazing at the time?
ReplyDeleteUnless you kept them under a dusty old bed and the drive got a bit clogged and unreliable... :-<...