13 Jan
2003
13 Jan
'03
11:20 a.m.
At 04:19 PM 1/13/03 -0400, you wrote:
I do indeed remember those manuals - those sturdy
binders which let you know
these systems meant business. There were never enough of the binders
available in the IBM PC dealership I worked in. And lest we forget: the
infamous "This page intentionally left blank" page. What's up with that??
I do also memember Wordstar and it's arcane command sequences. Those
commands persisted though, through a number of ordinary text editors for
programmers & such.
Speaking of infantile and utterly bizarre, does anyone remember that abysmal
IBM attempt at a word processor, the name of which escapes me at the moment.
I think it was vaguely based on their mainframe product, typical of IBM at
the time.
Sounds like you're thinking of DisplayWrite.
Joe