* Posts by Shtrobvik

2 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Apr 2012

Look back in Ascii: Computing in the 1980s

Shtrobvik

I'm a left-hander, and I just got used to it. I was in a band and I remember travelling along in a van at night, discussing what we needed to do, and me keeping perfect notes in the darkness! Unless my memory fails me, there was no backlit screen

Shtrobvik

Microwriter Agenda

I had one of those machines, and the 5-finger typing was very practical - hugely better than trying to type on a Blackberry style keyboard. It strikes me that someone with coding knowledge could revive this system for smartphones and tablets. Anyone out there interested?