Amstrad PCW (Score: 1) by alioth@pipedot.org on 2014-05-14 09:37 (#1K2) I don't use one, but every so often someone in one of the retro forums I frequent will find an Amstrad PCW that someone still uses every day. (Amstrad made these in the 1980s as basically wordprocessor appliances - they were inexpensive all-in-one machines supplied with a daisywheel printer and word processing/spreadsheet software. The screens are green phosphor monochrome, and capable of MDA-resolution mono graphics but the word processor software was entirely text mode. They were Z80 based and also ran CP/M, and people even wrote some games for the system).Probably for the same reason. They are straightforward, robust, free of distractions and if all you need to do is type letters and perhaps do the odd spreadsheet and other things that a small business might need to do, they may still be enough. Re: Amstrad PCW (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-14 10:05 (#1K3) I had to look that one up: https://www.google.sn/search?q=amstrad+PCW&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Cj9zU8fDH9LLsATQtIC4BA&ved=0CDIQsAQ&biw=1008&bih=911Pretty sweet looking old 8 bit machine. I could put one of these things in front of at least some of my staff and their productivity would rise, that's for sure. Screw always-on internet connections in modern offices: it's a joke. I'm posting this from work, for example, instead of actually doing my job :)I heard somewhere about a guy running a database and his billing off a Commodore64. It was a small mechanic/garage or something, and the guy said, "it does what I need and there's no reason to change it." Awesome.
Re: Amstrad PCW (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-14 10:05 (#1K3) I had to look that one up: https://www.google.sn/search?q=amstrad+PCW&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Cj9zU8fDH9LLsATQtIC4BA&ved=0CDIQsAQ&biw=1008&bih=911Pretty sweet looking old 8 bit machine. I could put one of these things in front of at least some of my staff and their productivity would rise, that's for sure. Screw always-on internet connections in modern offices: it's a joke. I'm posting this from work, for example, instead of actually doing my job :)I heard somewhere about a guy running a database and his billing off a Commodore64. It was a small mechanic/garage or something, and the guy said, "it does what I need and there's no reason to change it." Awesome.