Just a brief catch up following on from the previous article.

10 PRINT “Hello there.”

20 GOTO 10

RUN

Ahh, who remembers doing that in Rumbelows or Dixons? Old tech is great, but you know what? So is new tech.

If you have read my previous post (https://trevorship.co.uk/the-tech-behind-the-blog) then you know that I often have odd working practices. Mostly when it comes to writing, mostly.

I am writing this on my 2009 MacBook because it is slow and stops me from doing too much internet surfing as I discussed before I am easily distracted.

Lately I have been using my Sharp FontWriter FW610 a great deal to write my new short stories on, it is a wonderful, if convoluted and impractical, way of writing. Oddly that is sort of the point, it makes me concentrate on what I am doing.

As I said in the previous article I was struggling with a couple of the features and I had attempted to find a PDF file of the manual, and there did not seem to be one available. I saw that The Centre for Computing History had a copy of the manual, I contacted them and asked if it was possible for them to scan it. They answered me within two days and said that they couldn’t but that they had a spare copy and if I was willing to pay postage they would post it to me.

How brilliant is that? Very, that’s how brilliant. I made a donation (more than postage, don’t you worry) as they are a charity and I would love to visit one day. A few days later I have a copy of the manual and a fully working word processor.

I have so far written two first drafts of short stories on it, something that I am trialling as a way of making new content. Not sure what to do with them as yet, but I will let you know when I do.

Please have a look at the Centre for Computing History website, and possibly visit when this pesky pandemic thing has receded a bit. I know I will be doing.

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

It also had a print in the book, with the following footnote.