Does anyone remember the Commodore 64 and SpeedScript? I remember when everyone was excited when the latest version supported 80 cols instead of 40! :o)
>I had an illegal copy, along with an illegal manual my young acolyte in the home office had duplicated by an "understanding" copy shop in the Chicago loop. It was so cool to have a word processing program at all but I still have flashbacks about the weird keyboard combinations to accomplish routine tasks. ^KK, ^KD, etc.
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>Then WordPerfect came along and took the market away. And its UI was even wackier. It was pure rote memorization. No wonder users were so loyal, having gone through so much pain and suffering to be able to use the product at all.
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>>I'm proud to say that I used WordStar. I think I even owned a legal copy.
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>>>Just showing your age, there, Craig... (grin).... yeah, forgot about that one...
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