7 Jul
2003
7 Jul
'03
9:43 a.m.
One of the good things about Ami Pro was that it would read file formats
that a lot of other word processors wouldn't. (That may or may not matter
to you). I used it a few times but I don't recall any other exceptional
features. I used MS Word for most of my WP needs. FWIW if you use Word
Perfect make sure you get the DOS based version, the windows version sucked
big time.
Joe
At 10:07 AM 7/7/03 -0400, you wrote:
Wordperfect 5.1. It's DOS based, but probably the
most capable word
processing software of that era.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Jules Richardson
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:32 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Older wordprocessing software
Hi all, perhaps pusing the boundaries of off-topicness here a little,
but...
I'm taking suggestions for wordprocessing software to run on an older
486 laptop (1994, so almost within the 10 year limit!) that's running
Windows 3.11 ...
I still use the machine for a bit of wordprocessing ocassionally (such
as it is with Windows Write), and better software would be nice. The
laptop's handy for taking stuff down on before formatting things
'properly' on a more modern desktop.
I remember Ami Pro being quite reasonable on a similar spec desktop
machine, but my copy went to tape years ago and around half of the old
tapes of mine that I found recently are no longer readable :-(
Suggestions of alternative software welcome though...
cheers
Jules
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