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From: Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net>
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 01:58:53 -0400, SixOverFive <hae274c.net> wrote:
>
> On 08/28/2021 08:55 PM, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 12:20:28 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>>> On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:40:37 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>
>>>> With Wordstar and Supercalc and a dot matrix printer, you were in
>>>> business on two floppy drives - one for programs, one for data,
>>>
>>> I think the first word processor was Electronic Pencil.
>>> "Everything" after are a clones. ;-)
>> heh...
>> I still have WordStar 6.0 running in DosBox on my Ubuntu system.
>> I have it running both for a curiosity exercise and for the ability
>> to print some old, specially crafted PCL files.
>> I'll see if I can drag it along to its half-century mark...
>
>   WordStar was OK ... basic, but GOT IT DONE. Just had
>   to learn those shortcut commands  :-)

/me hugs the WordStar Diamond

As I mentioned I love running vintage machines in an emulator I never
owned to relive early micro computer history. For fun I did some word
editing with WordStar on a Osborn I. Its keyboard doesn't has cursor keys
(so the real cursor keys on the host machine have no function when
emulating the Osborn), thus I had to use the "WordStar Diamond" instead.

Also had to learn the WordStar shortcuts ^K.
-- 
Andreas