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Lawrence (Larry) Chavarie of Ottawa sends us his masterly translation of an article from the French publication “Science et Vie” (Science and Life). The review describes the Z88 as embodying technical features that stun (“etonne”), being loaded with gadgets (“l’ensemble est truffe d’astuces”), and incorporating “une memoire d’elephant”.
Just as our daisy wheel doesn’t handle French accents, so do speakers of French criticize the Z88 keyboard. Not only are the accents missing, but the French conventional keyboard is not QWERT…, but something starting AZERTY. The acronyms EPROM and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) are unchanged in French, though. Eh bien, plus ca change…