7 Jul
2016
7 Jul
'16
11:31 a.m.
On 07/07/2016 18:57, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 07/06/2016 07:15 PM, Murray McCullough wrote:
Wordstar of fond memory.
Try highlighting a word with shift and right arrow, then ctrlC.
Now move in your email and type crtlV.
Yes Wordstar keyboard commands are alive and well.
Mozzila Thunderbird - Yup
MS Mail - Yup
Notepad - Yup
Libre Office Writer - Yup
... and so on.
I used Wordstar as a programmers editor on a Northstar Horizon running
CPM and writing commercial code in CBASIC.
You could drop out of Wordstar compile or run and then go back with a
couple of key strokes.
ADM3A as a terminal and Diabolo Daisy as a printer. Forms on screen
application and letter quality printing.
Not to mention letter quality word processing single sheet feed etc.
Those where the days!!
Rod Smallwood
My first word processor was from Wang called
?Word Processor? and
then IBM?s ?Displaywriter?. I tried ?Wordstar? originally called
?Wordmaster? but way too complicated.
The big oversight here is that nobody seems
to collect old wapro stuff;
Harris, Lanier, AES, Artec, Qyx, etc.
Soon, this will be a big hole in history, I suspect.
--Chuck