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Re: Microsoft Word 1.0

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In article <050420121306167202%dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid>, sbt
<dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote:

> 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.

You are right. I used a German version, which was newer than English
1.00. Anyway, the program was easy to use and it worked fine - but I
hated the copy protection and the permanent disk swapping...

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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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