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In article <40loud$o8t@mp.cs.niu.edu>, z911588@cs.niu.edu (Xcott Craver) wrote:

> Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) spewed forth the following profound insight:
> 
> ==> cirby@magicnet.net (Chad Irby) writes:
> 
> ==> >Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
> ==> >
> ==> >> You missed the point (it isn't the first time :-)  I didn't doubt
> ==> >> that Smith-Corona went out of business, but the fact that it was "the
> ==> >> last of them".  Go back and check.
> ==> >
> ==> >He's right- there are a few typewriter manufacturers still in business. 
> ==> >But right now, the biggest in the world is Brother, and they build more
> ==> >computer printers than typewriters.  They don't make those old manual
> ==> >machines any more.  The machines they *do* make are "word processors"
> ==> >instead of plain old electric typewriters, and they're not something an
> ==> >untrained user could manage any more.  
> 
> ==> I wouldn't call a typewriter with an one-line buffer "word processor".
> 
>     Where did he say anything about 'one-line buffers'?  My Evil friend
>     Rob has a Brother Word-Processor, and you have a multiple-line screen.
>     And you can save your work to 3.5".  I still consider it a typewriter,
>     but it is nothing like the typewriters, even the electric typewriters,
>     of yore.

I had a roomate a couple years back who had a brother word
processor/typewriter.  It had a 10 line or so screen.  I'm not sure how
big the buffer actually was.  In any case, it seemed to actually be
running WordPerfect DOS!  It would also save to double density floppies.

It got the job done, but I'd never recommend one to anybody.

                                         - Joel