A reviewer at The Verge says a two-device distraction-free substitute for old word processors is worth nearly $900

[usonian]

19. Before you tipped me off, I was going to ask if you are Jerry Pournelle.

I built a CP/M computer and got copies of wordmaster and wordstar. It was fun, being a real pioneer.

But lately, straight text is all I use, not even markdown, which still confuses me (and I used LaTeX some years back)

I watched Jerry go from writer to software and hardware reviewer, and sensed regret that "men have become the tools of their tools" ... Thoreau

Users at Berkeley asked me to install foreign fonts, which was fun because the donated workstations had from 8 to 16 megabytes of memory, and disks were typically 105 megabytes. I had to share operating system files from the file server just to cram the OS into them. My memory may be weak but theirs is gone.

Here's a fun bit.