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Re: WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

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On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Anssi Saari wrote:

> Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:
>
>> http://sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
>>
>>    Many Science Fiction writers - including myself, Roger MacBride Allen,
>>    Jeffrey A. Carver, Arthur C. Clarke, David Gerrold, Terence M. Green,
>>    James Gunn, Matthew Hughes, Donald Kingsbury, Eric Kotani, Paul
>>    Levinson, George R. R. Martin, Vonda McIntyre, Kit Reed, Jennifer
>>    Roberson, and Edo van Belkom - continue to use WordStar for DOS as our
>>    writing tool of choice.
>
> Since that's so old (1996), it would be interesting to know who of the
> writers on that list are still using WordStar almost 20 years
> later... Off the top of my head Martin does and Clarke doesn't but I
> have no idea about the others.
>
I don't know if she's using Wordstar, but Jo Walton, who is local now, had 
problems at one point when her old laptop broke down, because she used it 
to run something old for her writing.  A reader came up with a suitable 
replacement laptop.

I think she has a more recent computer for other things.  I don't know if 
she writes on the old machine, then rewrites on a new one.  Lester Del Rey 
apparently did that in the old days, using one typewriter for the first 
draft, then a different (and later) one for the editing and final draft.

   Michael

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WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-05 09:57 +0000
  Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-09-05 16:41 +0300
    Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-05 10:18 -0400
    Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-09-05 15:45 +0100
      Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-05 14:45 -0400
        Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-06 01:38 +0000
  Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-09-06 17:18 +0000
    Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) Michael Murphy <fake@nospam.invalid> - 2014-09-06 17:54 -0400
  Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-07 10:12 +0000
    Re: WordStar:  A Writer's Word Processor (1996) polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-09-11 18:38 +0100

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