In a message to Linda Proulx, Andy Roberts wrote re: Get Going

AR> I exposed my wife to computers a couple of decades ago with an Epson QX-10
AR> and ValDocs which had a GUI (better than WinXX has now) and allowed long
file
AR> names, which she got addicted to.  

Good grief! Another Ex-QX user!  I just retired my last QX-16 
this past July, not because of any problems (it still works fine)
but just because my son needed something a little more modern for
his school work.

But a couple little nit-picks.  The Valdocs environment wasn't a 
GUI, it was text-based (except Valpaint).  But it was still quite
unusual, especially for a Z80-based system, in that it used 
multiple text windows on the screen.  Ie, when you popped up a 
menu, it actually appeared in a separate text window that 
scrolled up from the bottom of the screen.  And it was probably 
the first truly integrated environment, with word processing,
spreadsheet, paint, graphs, mail, etc. all transparently 
integrated with each other.  It's a shame it died so soon.

And the "long file names" weren't really.  They were descriptive 
pointers that used the Valdocs indexing system to refer to the 
real file names, which were typical CP/M 8.3 file names of the 
form 881031A1.VAL


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