[AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Wed Oct 10 10:43:44 CDT 2007


Here's a link to the commercial one that was released to the public:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPFPC

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:25 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs

Hi Drew

Never heard of SPFPC, only pfs:Write and a more pro app (PC4 or Write 4??). But it reminds me of Borland Sprint. Anyone remembers that? Probably the last DOS word processor with the unique feature that it recorded each and every keystroke you made. Thus, while typing or editing, you could pull the plug. Then, when you had rebooted and launched Sprint a black screen appeared with the text like this (cannot recall the exact wording):

  Work in progress
  Resuming ..

and in half a minute or so you were back where you left!
Also, the macro language was much better; I remember one describing Sprint as "one big macro".

It arrived too late. I moved on to Amì Pro from Samna, a true Windows application later bought by Lotus and now renamed Lotus WordPro. Still the best word processor around.

/gustav


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