Off Topic: Years Gone By (longish)

["Cris Doherty" <batfinx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Fellow FrameMaker users.

I have been a subscriber (and Frame user) to this service for a couple of
years and apart from asking a couple of questions (which were promptly
answered) have sat in the background studying the various debates and, I
hope, learning from them. I am now prompted to write this due to the mails
regarding OTC (Old Time Computing) and thought that I could put in my two
penneth  (cents, shekels,rials, rubles, whatever). My first initiation to
computers and word processing came with a Dragon 32 machine. Yes, it was
sold as a games machine but some bright guys realised its potential and
wrote some software that allowed the user to turn the machine into a text
processor or a radio signal interpreter allowing the user to hook up a short
wave receiver to the machine and view the transmissions in 'plain text'!
Good old days! Incidentally, the text processor was called 'TEXTSTAR', was
loaded into the 32Kb ram via a mono tape player and printout came via a
Centrex connected 5 inch 'bog roll' printer which used 4 colored 'biro' pens
to write the output to paper. The video output was via a standard colour TV.
Now I have lived through IBM 640s, 246s, Amstrads and at the moment P3's.
Where do we go next, I wonder? Word processing has migrated to the web,
which I have now begun to work with. I'm a 'newbie' with all of this but
always appreciate any help and input from those in the know. Sorry to go on
for so long but hope this missive gives some food for thought.
Kindest regards to all Framers,

Cris

Company address follows:

Chris.Doherty@ntli.net
'Technology Tamed'

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