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Article #621428Re: Old word processors
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 04:33
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 04:33
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On 3/25/2018 9:35 PM, Charles Richmond wrote: > On 3/25/2018 6:44 PM, JimP wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 17:50:12 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach >> <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 22:46:36 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote: >>>> >>>> On 3/24/2018 3:31 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I still maintain that before the IBM PC, personal computers were >>>>> still a specialty niche market. Yes, there were Radio Shack >>>>> and Apple computers out there. But in _relative_ terms, the >>>>> number of users was still very small. >>>>> >>>> >>>> What you should say is... widespread use of microcomputers in the >>>> *business* sector did 8not* occur until the IBM PC. It even took thw >>>> slow-witted business managers *years* to realize they could ge much >>>> better computers for less money... by purchasing IBM PC clones. >>> >>> What is with the Osborne and the office software coming along with it? >>> Since WordStar and other could run on any Z80 (8080) I assume that at >>> least small businesses used it a lot. >> >> I was finally able to remember/discover online, the name of the Amiga >> word processor software: Final Writer. it was great, until I tried >> printing. Then it was incredibly slow. >> > > There was a word processor sold by Mark of the Unicorn software. The > word processor was called FinalWord. I used it at a PPoE on a Harris > 800 computer; the company had a daisywheel printer in a noise housing. > > The license for using the word processor cost a lot IMHO... > Craig Finseth was a programmer at Mark of the Unicorn software. Finseth has a book _The Craft of Text Editing_ on writing text editors available as a pdf file: https://www.finseth.com/craft/ -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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