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Printing real headline news on the Commodore 64 with The Newsroom's Wire Service

Posted by superultra |2 hours ago |1 comments

superultra 2 hours ago

I have fond memories of this software as a kid. I used it on an Apple IIE at school. It felt powerful. You - a kid!! - could create a newspaper. It had a cartoon feel to it, but I never felt like the software condescended to me as a kid. It gave me real word-processing and editing and layout tools. Nothing like what's available today, but at the time, you really could work with friends and produce and print out a broadsheet/newspaper on a dot matrix printer and hand it out (or have your dad or mom photocopy it at work).

This article dives into a Newsroom mystery I had forgotten about: the Wire Service!