OK, so what will it do? Well, as well as allowing you to prepare and enter the text of your letters, you can send the whole thing to your printer for any number of copies to be printed.

You can delete, add or amend any or all of the lines of text, as required, before sending to the printer. Your letter may be savd on cassette for later recall.

You can also save a mailing list on cassette so that individually addressed copies of the same letter can be printed.

Finally, up to five standard paragraphs can be set up, stored in memory and called upon at any time for adding to the main body of text as necessary.

All of this is achieved via an eight option menu and three graphics pad keys.

A true word processor package will cost hundreds of pounds, so for £8 you can expect some limitations. Some of these are: no more than 200 lines, each of 40 characters, is allowed; there is no count or indication of line length; and standard paragraphs cannot be SAVEd for future use.

I had a few problems due to my non-standard Centronics printer/interface but a small amount of patching soon remedied the situation.

More worrying was the syntax error reported on line 4360. The program stopped on every run until 4390 was deleted.

I.H.