[Coco] The terrible Scripsit

[Louis Ciotti]

A a relative new user of VIM, I find it's simplicity a nice aspect.
I have even taken a liking to MUTT for reading mail on my linux boxes.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Robert Hermanek
<rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:
> Scripsit's quirkyness is a product of its times, in my opinion.  I remember
> the first time I logged onto a unix system and had to use vi -- that's still
> in use, and has all kinds of non-intuitive behaviors.  And after a while,
> you kinda miss it... :)
>
> -RobertH
>
>
> On 2/11/2013 11:34 AM, Louis Ciotti wrote:
>>
>> I think that one thing you have to keep in mind when looking at
>> vintage SW is that looking back we will always be able to point out
>> imperfections/flaws present.  I am sure what Scripsit came out it was
>> a nice program for people in the market segment it was targeted for.
>> In 1981 it was common to use the cassette tape for saving information,
>> especially the market the CoCo was geared toward.  Back in 1981 the
>> IBM PC was released with a price tag of just south of $1,600 which is
>> equivalent to about $4000 today.  A TRS-80 with 16K of memory and
>> Extended color basic and a cassette recorder was $650, Color Scripsit
>> was $40.  So the CoCo user was looking at $700, or about $1700 today.
>> Adding a drive to a CoCo then was another $600.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I hope Robert G Kilgus, not on the list, lol
>>>
>>> He made other programs
>>> Art Gallery (1981) (26-3061)
>>>
>>> Color Cubes (1981) (26-3075)
>>>
>>> Color Scripsit (1981) (26-3105)
>>>
>>> Color Profile
>>>
>>> Dino Wars (1981) (26-3057)
>>>
>>> Quasar Commander (1980) (26-3051)
>>>
>>> Skiing (1981) (26-3058)
>>>
>>> For me the best Skiing  gives the impression fine going down a mountain
>>> skies, with the bright idea of just a few sticks accomplish that, it was
>>> fabulous
>>> was not as good dino wars
>>> also I have my complaints color profile
>>> and one of my favorite color cube, does not help you solve it, you need
>>> the version 2 of the
>>>
>>> But certainly, Robert had a large amount of software, and I give my
>>> biggest congratulations
>>>
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