[Coco] The terrible Scripsit

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

At 12:43 PM 2/11/2013, you 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... :)


Really true. I had disliked the available CoCo word processors so 
didn't use them (I kept using my Model I as a word processor until 1992).

But I did start to write one for the CoCo ... and speaking of product 
of the times! I had created it so that the screen contents MOVED over 
top of a FIXED window at the center like a typewriter platen moved 
the paper around the type/ribbon guide. There was no cursor because 
whatever you were typing was always in the very center of the screen. 
I sketched it in BASIC and never got beyond that because it stopped 
making sense as people stopped using regular typewriters.

You can't see the future.

Dennis