[Coco] CoCo Office suite

[Bob Devries]

The Australian OS9 Newsletter started life (second incarnation from 
1987) using the Stylograph word processor on OS9. However, we eventually 
found it too buggy, especially with the large files. After a while, we 
moved to Bob van der Poel's VED/VPrint, which was way more flexible. 
Spell checking? Never used one. Mostly the reason was that spell 
checkers used US English, and we are Aussies :P

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

On 11/11/2014 11:51 PM, farna at amc-mag.com wrote:
> Nobody has mentioned Tandy's "Deskmate"!!??? I know it wasn't the best,
> used too much memory, but it was an OS-9 based office suite. I think VIP
> was the best, but I never really used it. My two main productivity
> programs were Telewriter for word processing (TW64 and the later CC3
> version... tw128) and Ultimaterm for my terminal program. I used a
> checkbook program from The Rainbow at first, later one that I wrote for
> the CC3. Never did anything with graphics on the CoCo, and never needed a
> spreadsheet. I did use a mailing lable program, but can't remember what it
> was. Even after I got a PC for producing "the world of 68' micros" and my
> CoCo books, I did most of my initial writing on the CoCo, and used it for
> the Internet and e-mail until graphical pages took over the Internet to
> the point a text based browser wasn't practical. "Tandy's Little Wonder",
> the text for "Mastering OS-9", and even my first Rambler (car) book were
> all initially written on the CoCo. I'd transfer the text to the PC to
> layout pages in PageMaker and just do the final editing there. PM had a
> built-in spell checker, so that was easier to do on the PC. Graphics on
> the CoCo just wasn't good enough to print anything remotely professional
> looking, though I'm sure some will disagree. Even a 300 dpi laser printer
> was better than anything I ever got out of the CoCo. There were a couple
> DTP programs suitable for club or family newsletters, but I needed
> something better.
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