The Useful Personal Computer
technicshistory.comTIL from a closer read: EasyWriter was made with a custom Forth compiler.
(This looks it came from the 3rd-chance pool... because the rate at which old-timers contribute to
https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
seems to have dropped)
> To market their new products to people who had not already spent years pining for a computer of their own, the creators of the second wave of microcomputers had to face head on the question of what the microcomputer was actually good for.
This is exactly the task of ChatGPT's current consumer advertising campaign in the UK. Lots of small use cases.