🚀 go-pugleaf

> 
> If the friend has the cash, a cheap IBM clone may be the answer, at
> least for semi-decent text editing (haven't seen a decent editor for
> my "toy" C-64 or C-128, but maybe Emacs has me spoiled). 

For your C128, try VisaWriter or the new PaperBack Writer, or the new
version of PaperClip (PaperClip II?); each of these are excellent
wordprocessors in their own right.  You're not going to get Gosling's
or GNU Emacs on a C128 (or anything short of an Amiga with a few extra 
meg of RAM just for the editor).  What kind of "editiong" are you looking
for on the C128; I notice you didn't say word processor, but unless 
you're doing lots of high level programming any one of the mentioned
wordprocessors would be better than Emacs for writing text in most
cases (I've been using various incarnations of Emacs for around 7 years,
som I'm quite familiar with it).

> A local dealer is selling the  Leading Edge PC with the  Leading Edge WP,
> monitor, two drives, and 512k of RAM for $1399, which sounds like a
> pretty good deal to me (considering that a 128 with two drives and
> color monitor would cost $1100, and it's nowhere near as powerful as a
> PC-Drone).

Actually, the C128 is comparable with a basic PC (and that price sounds 
a bit high for the C128 system).  The processor actually runs quite a bit 
faster, and is more efficient with memory at that.  Of course the PC wins 
big on disk speed and expandability, and somewhat memory size.  But for
around $1399 you could beat the PC at speed, expandability, and memory
size with a 512K Amiga.

> Of course, if your friend wants to get in on the leading edge of
> computing, he should get an Amiga :-).
			     ^^^^^^^

Oh, excuse me, you are obviously very intelligent.
> -- 
> 
>       Eric Green {akgua,ut-sally}!usl!elg
>         (Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509)
> 
> " In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
>  people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
-- 
============================================================================
Dave Haynie	{caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh
		"Techno-Hippie, heathen, designing evil computers"

	These opinions are my own, though if you try them out, and decide
	that you really like them, a small donation would be appreciated.