A Splendid Idea!

Our old friend Irving Helbling wrote, “although I spent my entire adult life writing lengthy reports, I find that words on a screen do not look like words on paper. I am constantly in doubt about the accuracy of my spelling. The dictionary usually confirms my instinct, but it takes a lot of time.

All this leads to the suggestion that there should be a marriage between ZX Pro/File and Word-Sinc, the offspring to be called ZX Word/Spell-Sinc. I suspect that like me, thousands of others have the same need and would buy such a program as its parentage would be the blueblood of TS software.

How about it?”

Dear Irving, not long after your idea came in, I got word from Fred Nachbaur (he’s the founding father of SyncWare News) that he managed to merge Pro/File data into Memotext and vice versa. Now that’s not exactly Wordsync, and a spelling checker is still a long ways off, but the prospect is fascinating. Fred now sells Memotext on tape and with a built-in speed load to boot for $29.95. That’s a real deal. His technique for wedding Pro/File to Memotext is free for all in SyncWare News Sept/Oct 84. Now all we need is a spelling checker offspring, and more importantly, to answer the question: Which one’s the daddy?