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WHY I COMM-ADORE MY COMMODORE
by Jimmy D. Turner
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....
JDT