>>Hmmm... for the life of me, I can't remember the name of my first word processor. It was from IBM and probably shipped with the PCjr. Anyone?
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>PFS-Write, I think. Made by a third-party and co-branded by IBM. They sold it with their PC's as well as the PCJr.
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>I was supporting a book author who was using WordStar 7.0 (?) even up to about 1997.
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>But what about the late great PFS-File, and Jim Button's PC-File, and dBase III, (came on six 5.25 diskettes), and DataPerfect, (companion to WordPerfect) and DataStar (companion to WordStar)

Ah, it's coming back now. "IBM Writing Assistant" was the name. It wasn't very advanced feature-wise, but very easy to use. It was perfect for spitting out documents to my dot-matrix printer, which amazingly could print in both directions <g>. It was bundled with "Filing Assistant", which I never used. Hmmm... the first "office" suite?

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>Gentlemen....I think we a dating ourselves. :-)
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I was only about 14 or 15 at the time, learning to program PC-BASICA on my PCjr cartridge, punching in games from Compute! magazine, wishing that I was PEEKing and POKEing somewhere besides my computer <g>. The good ole days.