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Re: Microsoft Word 1.0

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In article <050420121313474077%never@spam.invalid>, Guenther Fischer
<never@spam.invalid> wrote:

> In article
> <62280271-0b5c-4b1f-a20b-1c45c992d3c2@r9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
> Mulder <nil.bureau.bitbucket@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking for a copy of Microsoft Word 1.0 for the Mac. It
> > originally came on a 3.5" floppy disk, and I just need the actual
> > program from it.
> > 
> > Please, if anybody has it, let me know.
> 
> This original was copy protected. It did only run on the original 800k
> disk. There have been some patches, but they needed a copy of the
> program.
> I did throw away my original around 1980 after the third replacement by
> Microsoft (wear out of the media). Each replacement was waiting 2-3
> weeks for a new one. This was no fun at all and one of the reasons, why
> we all hated Bill Gates.

Minor correction, but that was a 400K disk. The 800K disks didn't
appear until the MacPlus and Mac 512Ke the following year. MS Word 1.0
wasn't really very good, not nearly as usable as the 1.05 release that
held sway for a while. The next worthwhile version was Word 3, then
Word 5.1 (hmmm. maybe MS Word and the Star Trek movies belong together:
odd numbers for Word and even numbers for Star Trek :) )

-- 
Spenser

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Microsoft Word 1.0 Mulder <nil.bureau.bitbucket@gmail.com> - 2012-04-04 07:47 -0700
  Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Guenther Fischer <never@spam.invalid> - 2012-04-05 13:13 +0200
    Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 sbt <dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid> - 2012-04-05 13:06 -0700
      Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-05 16:26 -0400
        Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2012-04-05 15:12 -0700
          Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2012-04-06 00:25 +0200
            Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-04-05 22:35 +0000
              Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2012-04-06 01:12 +0200
            Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2012-04-06 11:40 -0700
              Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Phillip Jones <pjones1@kimbanet.com> - 2012-04-06 22:09 -0400
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-06 23:12 -0400
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-04-07 04:36 +0000
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2012-04-07 13:18 +0200
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-04-07 12:25 +0100
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-04-07 17:14 +0000
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2012-04-07 19:41 +0200
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-07 16:25 +1200
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 PhillipJones <pjones1@kimbanet.com> - 2012-04-07 10:26 -0400
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-04-07 17:39 +0100
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 PhillipJones <pjones1@kimbanet.com> - 2012-04-07 18:20 -0400
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-07 19:18 -0400
                Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-08 15:33 +1200
      Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Guenther Fischer <never@spam.invalid> - 2012-04-06 02:27 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-05 05:21 -0700
  Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-04-05 12:44 +0000
    Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2012-04-05 15:54 -0700

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