British Expatriate Network

I was reading this and suspecting that I am not the only one here with memories (fond or otherwise) of these devices.

http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6925963.stm

I worked for a charity in the early 90's providing free legal advice. We were still using these to write letters and gradually moving to PC's (which none of us could work).

My favorite "game" was the spellchecker, which was eccentric, to put it mildly. Enter any word, spellcheck, and see what randon alternatives were thrown out.
Eastbourne always became "Earthbound" - which always seemed approriate, and was on occasions left unchanged... as in letters to the local MP, who would always call to let me know... roll

I had both the 8592 and the 8512, neither of which ended their lives with a funtioning printer- although the last one I owned took a normal sized floppy disc but was never compatible with anything other than those of it own,strange ilk. The 8512, if I'm remembering correctly, had a bizzare metal disc that you had to turn over to utilize the remainder of the memory. As a word processor they were pretty good, if not a little complicated to use, and I still bear the trauma of learning to type on their awful, clunky keyboards. Alas, a cat went to sleep on the printer and caused some sort of minor fire which rendered it useless and a bit melted.(printer ,not cat)
I still have the floppy from the last one, hoping that someday I can rescue my unfinished novel from the limbo of Sugarspace..
Thanks for posting!