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PROMERGE PLUS (Popular Computing Weekly) | ARNOR - PROMERGE PLUS (New Computer Express) |
WHO NEEDS AN IBM? Would you believe that the upmarket Performance Car magazine was produced using CPCs? I found that little gem in the archives, from 1988. It seems that Performance Car editor, Jesse Crosse, was so impressed with the CPC and Protext he badgered parent company AGB Specialist Publications to buy 50 of the Amstrad machines! There are things you can do on it and with it 10 times better than wrth the 16-bit business machines everyone's always raving about - and they cost 10 times the price!” The CPCs were used for everything from writing copy to typing letters and database handling, Jesse Crosse himself wrote several routines to use within Pretext, including a memory-resident pop-up Phonebook! "It's a fantastically powerful machine for the price, and it's tragic that everyone's underestimated what it can do, With a CPC and Protext you can run a ridiculously cheap operation - actually I would say it s superior to something like WordStar on an !BMf but no-one would believe me!" Quite true, I'Ve tried on a number of occasions to convince PC owners that their word processors (which cost more than a CPC itself, by the way) don't actually do anything you can't do on the Amstrad. The trouble is, you see, that the PC market is incredibly snobby. No-one believes that a machine can be any good unless it uses the latest Intel mega-chip, or that software can be any use to anyone unless it costs as much as a return air flight to New York? Promerge is just one of the Pro text add-ons that maks it such a powerful suite of programs. >> NewComputerExpress#151 (9-91) |
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