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From: Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net>
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Subject: Re: HA - Found a CP/M-86 image and C compiler for VBox
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 23:47:05 -0400, SixOverFive <hae274c.net> wrote:
>
> On 8/31/21 6:16 AM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 01:58:53 -0400, SixOverFive <hae274c.net> wrote:
>>
>>>    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.
>
>   You could make do nicely with about 10 of them.
>
>   I'll have to find a WordStar .img file somewhere ...
>
>   I'm not sure what "vintage" means to YOU. A VIC-20 ? ZX-81 ?
>   TI-994a ? C64 ? Atari ? CoCo ?

All of them. Plus the Osborn, Kaypro and many other micros of the 1980s.
-- 
Andreas