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Abstraction is unavoidable, but a constant barrage is numbing. We need to revive the often-ridiculed visual aid. Dave--Birdboy--kept himself happy and sane during a word-processor stint for a Shakespeare class by scrawling verses from favorite plays all over his soccer ball. We laughed at him, but kicking and bouncing Mid-summer's Night Dream around the room kept the computer from sucking Shakespeare...
...before leaving the user at the A prompt. For users without a hard disk, the autoexec.bat file can be used to start up specific applications. For example, the Happy Hacker has a wordprocessing disk that will always load a spelling checker program and then start the word processor anytime the computer is reset with the disk in drive...
...commander also lets you edit the selected file with a handy built-in word processor...
That awesome vigor -- the tireless Marty even writes his books at a Morrow word processor while standing up -- is clearly evidenced in his daily schedule. The best-known and most solicited religion scholar working the lecture circuit, he daily receives half a dozen invitations to talk, and schedules one out-of-town appearance a week. He preaches at least once a month in various houses of worship, mainly in the area around suburban Riverside, Ill., where he lives with his second wife Harriet, a voice coach. Ever quotable, he is constantly sought by reporters looking for quick bursts of wisdom...
...between getting lousy grades in class and writing this column, the Happy Hacker remains glued to his word-processor trying to figure out how to get a word-processor to write his papers for him, or short of that, how it can at least explain to the professor the reason for turning in an assigned paper after the deadline. When he figures it out, you can hear it here first...