Re: Word Processor wars - QA Write runs on the GS

[Donald 'X-caiver' Pattee Jr <afn45687@afn.org>]

On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Richard Der wrote:

Copy>land@ (E.G. Land) wrote:
Copy>> Up until recently I had an XT and used
Copy>> QA Write to do my word processing. This product is light years
Copy>> ahead of AW.
Copy>Is anyone familiar with this board? One was seen being unloaded
Copy>in the csa2.marketplace for a couple of bucks a few of weeks ago.
Copy>

I have that board in my GS. I mainly use it for a controller so my apple 3.5
drive can readand write PC formatted floppies (720k ones). It does run
things faster than the original IBM did(about 3 times, that sounds about
correct), and if you add a math coprocessor chip (standard PC issue for that
model of CPU (easily attainable through parts catalogs)) it will go even
faster. It does ANSI and all the ansi colour codes, as well as CGA (or was
it EGA) graphics. It interfaces to all the standard GS ports, so you can use
whatever printer you already hve (including the ImageWiter 2)




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