>>>>WordStar was around long before WordImperfect or Multimate
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>>>>>Word - WordPerfect, Multimate
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>>>I had WordStar version .92, which ran on my IMSAI S-100 computer. We could do everything needed with just 64K of RAM, including running dBase II, using CP/M and MP/M operating systems. How I miss those 8" floppies! :)
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>>You had floppies? ;-)
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>>Actually some of the early PCs -- i.e. before the IBM PC -- did not have floppy drives. The storage mechanism was cassette tape.
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>I had some of those so called "movers and shakers" tell me that there was no such thing as an 8" floppy. I do not argue with ignorance. If someone knows it all then that is fine with me. :)


I have seen them with my own eyes. The secretaries in my office (early 1980s) used them in their dedicated word processing machines. Remember those? There was no networking between the different Wangs. Anyone who wanted to share files had to use "sneakernet".