I am impressed since the most flak I get I for still using
xywrite is from my own children.
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Subject: RE: HP programmable calculator
batteries
-----Original Message----- From: flash
>
Brian,
> The link you sent returned an error.
Must be
something at your end. Clicking in the message I sent to you works for
me.
> I don't know it.
It's a site for people who often
say, "Hey, I wonder what would happen if I put this component in that
machine..."
> I learned the battery trick from my father, a
technical writer at HP in the 70s.
> Later he went freelance; he passed
his XY3 disks and manuals on to me when he retired.
Wow...2nd gen
XyWriter! Very rare.
> Many thanks for digitizing all the
manuals. I haven't had a chance to look at them yet, but will do (to see what
I'm missing in XY4).
I use the Xy4 manuals for Xy3. I haven't found
that much that doesn't work for 3.
> I know everyone here swears
we 'retros' simply _must_ upgrade to XY4.
> But shucks, at this point,
isn't that like upgrading a '58 Buick Roadmaster to a '59 Buick
Roadmaster?
> I use XY only for bulk text input. All formatting and
printing is done in PageMaker (pc)
> or InDesign (Mac). XY3 does
everything I need it to, in its box standard version.
If I actually
used Xy the way most of the folks on this list do, I would definitely move up
to 4. But I use it the way Perl is often used; to affect massive changes to
very large amounts of text. Xy4 would be slightly better for that except for a
couple of quirks that annoy me enough to keep me away. Oh well...seems I'm
weird no matter WHAT group I hang with.
> Cheers,
>
-B
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