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From: Peter Flass
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:36

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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:46:46 -0500
> Dave Garland <dave.g...@wizinfo.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 	Wordperfect (5.1 anyway) was pretty good provided the keyboard had
> function keys to the left in a block, it was a disaster with function keys
> in a row over the top.
> 

Everything is a disaster with the function keys across the top.

-- 
Pete

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