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Nostalgic and funny ... whatever happened to Wordstar?
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Carol Haynes:
A nostalgic and funny read ...
http://www.rittman.net/archives/2004/06/in_search_of_stupidity_20_year.html
I don't think I am likely to buy the book but the review gives a flavour and is worth reading in itself.
thomthowolf:
Thanks for pointing this one out. I "cut my teeth" on Wordstar and Dbase. For thier time, they were wonderful products. I never thought I would become nostalgic for either of them.
Carol Haynes:
Ditto - but I found myself looking for a download of Worstar for DOS - just to relive the experience.
I spent many happy hours writing DBASE applications in those days (and teaching others to do it) ... funny thing is until I read that article I had completely forgotten about it and Ashton-Tate !!
They were the days when computers were real computers and we were all geeky .... happy days.
zridling:
Except for Fortran, dBase was the first program I learned, and I thought it was great (back then it was)! I never touched WordStar except on others' computers. It was good, but by the time I was using a word processor in an office, everyone was onto WordPerfect 5.0. Great find, Carol.
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