Hard Copy Appendix

Getting a word processor from my own salad days running that much better in the relative convenience of emulation had seemed one more small achievement; as ever, the emphasis appeared required. Not everything done in an emulator is locked within a low-resolution window on a more modern computer screen, but Max-10 was more on the unfortunate side of that. I could save something typed into it as “plain ASCII” and export that file from its Color Computer disk image. However, that meant discarding the formatting that was pretty much the whole point of the graphics-based word processor, treating it as just a more awkward predecessor to something like BBEdit. Back then, the point of most “productivity applications” was to produce printouts, and that was the problem.
( ASCII and you shall receive )