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title: "PSION “PCFOUR” Lets a $1000 MS-DOS Machine Act Like Your $100 QL"
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excerpt: "Reprint from The Hacker February 1988: review of the PSION PC software suite ($99 for IBM PC), comparing it feature-by-feature to the QL's native Archive database, word processor, and spreadsheet. Discusses practical data transfer between QL and IBM via RS-232."
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# PSION “PCFOUR” Lets a $1000 MS-DOS Machine Act Like Your $100 QL

Reprint from The Hacker February 1988: review of the PSION PC software suite ($99 for IBM PC), comparing it feature-by-feature to the QL’s native Archive database, word processor, and spreadsheet. Discusses practical data transfer between QL and IBM via RS-232.