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For many years, my father used an NEC 8201a [0] for just this purpose - sitting comfortably writing without distraction. He’d later feed the text into his PC for layout.

It also had BASIC, which I used to play with – and at one later point, I even wrote a little program in Visual Basic to simplify the process of transferring text from the NEC to his PC, including getting rid of the many erroneous carriage returns that the process otherwise inserted.

[0] https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=334