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- WHY I COMM-ADORE MY COMMODORE
-
- by Jimmy D. Turner
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- I stay with Commodore computers
- because I started with them back when
- it was still very much up for grabs as
- to which system would dominate the
- others. I bet on Commodore (which,
- with my track record, may have been
- the kiss of death). Having learned the
- system, though, I'm not going to
- change without a compelling reason,
- which, except for the internet, hasn't
- come along yet. (I'm sure that my
- advanced age is a factor, too, but we
- won't go there.)
-
- I have been using Timeworks
- Commodore programs for the past 17
- years in my law practice in Cordell,
- Oklahoma (except when tornadoes and
- ice storms come along and knock out
- all of the power lines). My word
- processor of choice for 16 of those
- years has been Word Writer 128, which
- runs on a Commodore 128-D. The major
- innovation that made this machine
- feasible for office use was the
- development of the speedy C=1581 (3
- 1/2") floppy drive with its increased
- storage capacity. (For the 13 years
- B.C. [before Commodore], I used a
- yellow pad and a ball-point pen.)
-
- Connect it to a good laser
- printer, and the Commodore puts words
- on paper as well as any machine can.
- After over a decade and a half, I have
- a digital accumulation of over 65
- megabytes of real estate contracts,
- court pleadings, wills, trusts,
- durable powers of attorney, etc.,
- etc., etc., plus a template on a
- Timeworks C=128 spreadsheet program
- that will print our a Regulation
- "Z"-compliant HUD-FHA-VA-FmHA closing
- statement and other programs that will
- print out amortization schedules and
- convert Commodore text to
- IBM-compatible text and so forth.
- Actually, I have used nearly every
- Commodore productivity program ever
- coded, for one purpose or another in
- connection with my legal practice.
-
- It's a simple fact that melted
- toner powder on paper doesn't care how
- it got there. Text sent to the printer
- by a Commodore is given as much legal
- recognition and effect as text sent by
- a room-sized super computer. A last
- will and testament or indenture of
- trust composed on a Commodore can pass
- a millionaire's estate as effectively
- as a will or trust composed on any
- other computer.
-
- By the same token, a fouled-up
- legal document prepared on a Commodore
- would be no more fouled up than one
- prepared on a Compaq, and the lower
- price of the Commodore should have
- left the lawyer with more money for
- malpractice insurance premiums. The
- advantages abound.
-
- Of necessity, I have switched to
- Windows machines for on-line legal
- research and e-mail communications,
- but I have been unable to wean my
- secretary away from the C=128-D, on
- which she learned about computers and
- word processing. She is comfortable
- with the Commodore, and it does
- everything that she needs it to do as
- fast as it needs to be done.
-
- I have found that memory-expansion
- cartridges, CMD RamLinks, hard drives,
- high-density floppy drives, and
- SuperCPU accelerators, GeoCables,
- etc., are not needed for straight word
- processing but do come in very handy
- for Geos 128, GeoPublish, Sylvia
- Porter Personal Finance, and similar
- programs that are otherwise almost too
- slow to use. (No offense, Maurice.)
-
- And the Commodore beat goes on....
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- JDT
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