[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Buying my own

jfjr@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Jerome Freedman) (12/24/87)

   I have experience purchasing and using IBM-PC's and AT's but I
was 
  1) Using them for data collection
  2) Buying them with company money :)

  Now I have need for a PC and an AT (since I am paying for it myself
money becomes important - I'll take clones). I have not kept up on
what's available (about a year out of date) so any advice would be
helpful. Ie what printers are appropriate- appropriate software etc.

  I need a 
 
1) A PC to do wordprocessing, period. I have never done this type
of work and this is not for me anyway - what is a good, easy to use
for a novice word processing program?

2) An AT primarily for scientific/numerical programming. This is
for me. I'll get MASM, Microsoft C, PCwrite(uemacs?) but what is a good
Fortran. Last time I looked there weren't any. Do I need fortran
to do this type of work (see above) Can I get by with C? 
How about math libraries - any good ones?

                                         Jerry Freedman,Jr
                                         jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa

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