This review is like no other I have ever written, for it was written on a new and better word-processor than the dated Telewriter. Yes, sure, Telewriter is a fine word processor, it's just that Smithson's Electronic Author is better.

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The format is text window and command window. The text window is either 51 or 64 characters wide, dependant on user choice, and twenty lines deep. The command window is two lines and allows input of the abbreviated commands to control I/O functions and text manipulation.

The keyboard scan doesn't appear to miss letters, ever, and the text, even with 64 characters a line is clear, neat and pleasant 10 read.

In theory, the B-side's 'Config' program should allow the WP to work with any printer. It works fine with my Seikosha, but I'm having trouble trying to get the centring to work! It's a tape-based WP but a DragonDOS version is available and a Delta Version is currently in production. All the usual features: Search and replace (selective and global), block move, copy, and delete, word count, etc. are very easy to operate. The program also has one up on an un-patched Telewriter that it has a right justification mode built into it so that it is possible to have your text printed in clear blocks without a jagged right hand margin.

All in all, I like Electronic Author and will now be using it instead of Telewriter. It would be nice to see word-wrap incorporated as an option.