wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert) (08/11/86)
Last night, CBS broadcast the made for TV movie "He's Fired, She's Hired." While it is obviously a pilot for a new series, what I found fascinating was for the first time someone used a computer that was not an Apple nor an IBM! What did we see but the hero doing wordprocessing on a little old Atari XL series computer! They never showed a good enough closeup to determine whether it was an 800XL or a 1200XL, but from what I could see it looked like an 800XL. In one scene could also be seen an Epson printer and an Atari 850 Interface. Any ideas as to whose monitor it was? It looked something like a Commodore 1702, except that it was black rather than tan. For those non-Atarians, the program being run was Atariwriter (or possibly Atariwriter +, there not being enough clues -- at least I could not tell) which is Atari's wordprocessing program. And incidentally does an excellent job, I wish I could find as good a wordprocessor for the IBM XT! --Bill--
charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green) (08/15/86)
In article <878@tekigm2.UUCP> wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert) writes: > [...] What did we see but the hero doing wordprocessing on a little old >Atari XL series computer! I was surprised, also, to see an 800XL in a department store advertisement of a computer desk (Hecht's or Sears, as I recall). A bit like "Star Trek", more popular *after* production than before... -- "'Tis better to 'R' and be thought a fool, than to 'F' and remove all doubt." -Charles Green at C3 Inc. {{styx!seismo,cvl}!decuac,dolqci}!c3pe!charles _____-__---__-_----_-__-_-_----__-_--_--___-_---__-__-_-_-_--__-_-__--___-_____
hyc@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (Howard Chu) (08/16/86)
As I recall, there is a scene in Captain Kirk's home on Earth (in Star Trek III) with an apparently chrome plated Commodore Pet in the background... Shades of the good ol' Vic-20 days! }-)