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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
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Subject: Re: Best WP for II+ - Help
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Date: 20 Sep 88 13:47:44 GMT
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>I inherited an old Apple II+ with 48K, an Applied Engineering 80 column
>card, and two disk drives.  I need to do a lot of word processing and
>have been out of the II+ scene for years.  What is the best word processor
>that will work with the AE 80 column card?  It seems that any popular one

Probably your best bet is the old DOS 3.3 AppleWriter as LOTS of people
have it, and you probably can buy a used copy from someone at your local
user group.

ProDOS can be made to run on a II+ with an 80 column card IF you add a
16K "language card."  ProDOS AppleWriter (even AppleWorks) will run on
a 64K II+ (though you won't have much room for documents -- about 10K in
AppleWorks as I recall).

PIE Writer (if you can find a copy somewhere) will work fine in 48K; adding
the language card simply allows the editor and text formatter to be in
memory at the same time which speeds things up some.  Hayen's "Writer" is
simply PIE without the mail merge features (there may even be a mail order
place with a copy of the Writer around - Hayden went bankrupt and was
bought by Spinnaker which, so far as I know, dropped the business titles
and kept only the games).


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