Wow, time flies, doesn't it?
 

For two weeks after the previous update, the 4P was virtually ignored, a literal afterthought.  However, when the Bulk Lot of Disks I won on eBay arrived, things changed.  I decided to back up my LS-DOS disk, and discovered a little program called TED/CMD.
 

TED, if you aren't yet aware, is a Text EDitor.  A simple, bare bones text editor taking up all of 3K of space on my LS-DOS disk, and quite possibly the best program ever written..  After backing up my disk, I decided to poke around, to see what the program could do.  Nine hours (and one seriously numb behind) later,  I had written nearly fifty pages of text.  It's funny, once I started, I couldn't stop!  I had to keep writing!  I WANTED to keep writing!  Everything I had stuck in my head came out, stories, plans, articles, web page updates, it poured out like water from a faucet.  Some of it made it onto my personal webpage, others are still works in progress, still others are in the planning stages.
 

Eventually, I backed my Text Files diskette up onto my P166 using David Keil's TRS-80 emulator and the EXPORT/CMD command on the Model 4P utilities disk image...
 

For about a day after my nine hour writing session, I wondered WHY I had the sudden burst of creativity.  Why had the 4P triggered such an outpouring?  I thought about it for a while, and the only thing I could think of was this: