Retyping from scratch is one way to produce a second draft, and I can imagine someone telling me reasons why that might be preferable to changing a word here and there. Having to transcribe text out of a window showing the emulated screen of an antique Macintosh with the sense everything I had worked on in the new emulator Snow was locked inside it wasn’t all that pleasant, though. Once I’d posted about that, I went straight back to the emulator and started poking at it a bit more. One menu promised terminals monitoring the emulated serial ports. Digging through my existing archive of disk images, I turned up MacTerminal. A few period criticisms of that program and an awareness of all of the terminal programs that followed it came to mind, but when I tried it out I did find the plain text I’d tried sending in the modem port terminal window, and could copy the text into BBEdit in my modern system. (It had been “hard-wrapped,” though.)
( An imagination runaway )