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Article #621450Re: Old word processors
From: Dave Garland
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:46
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:46
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On 3/19/2018 10:09 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote: > WordStar on the other hand was designed for touch typists. But they > undid that when they designed new versions with different keys (wordstar > 2000?) > I personally thought WordStar 4 was the acme of perfection for PCs, though the Displaywriter was better. WordPerfect was very popular with business in the US, in part due to their exceptionally good telephone support and aftermarket add-ons for the medical and legal professions. The F-key orientaton slowed me down, but I never used it for production typing. In the Windows era all of them deteriorated, and required taking your hand off the keyboard to (which slows touch typists down a lot, and occasionally resulted in entire paragraphs of gibberish due to their hand ending up one key off of where it should be) to use the mouse. I think that the people who marketed and wrote software were hunt-and-peck typists, and probably correctly assumed that the people who purchased the software were as well. The people who had to use it, not so much, back then.
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