The very first text editor 3700

we must have been typing our replies in parallel. We are in violent agreement.

BTDT

I tried. I tried. I even got quite good at Microsoft Word (how different can you get?) for text based stuff. Even there, I was inventing "keyboard shortcuts" (note how that name illustrates what an failure the rest of the product is as an editor) that I remembered as teco commands like cmd-alt-W to uppercase a selection. It was using too much electricity, and I lost the annual developer licensing package when my business went bust. That's what I used to do. I had a real alpha running out in the barn, I'd ftp the doc to it and crank up an ssh terminal session to it from my Mac in the office. Hell, Barb, I even set the screen colour to black, the type colour to amber, and the font as close as I could get to a VT420. I wasn't so stuck in the past that I didn't have 200,1:w and 70,2:w in the teco.ini file. I would have end for 200*70 character VT in the old days, especially when everyone started writing axe-handles instead of good 'ol GOTOs

When I get my first Intel Mac, I'll get some virtualization tool like parallels, run simh on a virtual windows os and run hobbyist VMS on that. Heh mebbe go off into the sunset running teco on TOPS-10 ;-)

I wonder if I have it left in me to use that to help fix up one of the almost finished teco for Mac things out there.