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Comment by zimpenfish

3 years ago

Tasword 2 (word processor) on the Spectrum did 4x8 (3x7 with a spacer) to get 64 characters per line which was miraculous at the time.

(They probably kept it on an 8-high grid because the Spectrum's screen layout was a bit bonkers if you went off 8-alignment.)

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