Ami Pro? Used it for years until upgrading to Lotus WordPro. How about its
ancestor, Samna Word III? I remember running it on a Texas Instruments
Professional Computer (TI-flavored MS-DOS, _not_ the TI-99/4A home computer)
and a dual boot TI Business Pro '286 (TI and IBM mode MS-DOS). TI's 3-plane
graphics had EGA beat hands down. The hardcore geeks would run Xenix on a
Business Pro and remote two or three ASCII terminals through the serial
ports. Amazing, the things we did on 512-640K of RAM.
HP had it's own MS-DOS for a while. Remember those old, pre-Vectra computers
with the CPU built into the monitor housing and the disk drives in a seperate
box? Remember only eight function keys? The disk drive kept track of how much
a 3.5 inch floppy had been used. After so many million rotations it would
warn you to back up the data, then refuse to read the media.
For bonus points, who remembers the hardware vendor for the TI Micro Explorer
AI workstation? TI provided the scheme Lisp processor and software: Personal
Consultant Easy and PC Pro. It was the first desktop unit with two major
computer nameplates on it: TI and the hardware vendor. TI developed it for
those who couldn't come up with the cash for a full size Explorer workstation.
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 18:43, you wrote:
> What about good ole AMI PRO! for word processing?
>
> Now for spread sheets how about VISICAL it was sooooo great .....blah!
>
> I use to have to use this for school on a ole TRASH 80 model 3 and model 4
> with the green monocrome graphics.
>
> Then we use to use peeks and pokes to speed up things and make the machine
> do some wild stuff.
>
> I remember whne powering it up the Trash 80 that is hold the orange button
> and you were into basic.
>
> Whopping 128k of ram 32k rom what fun and with two double density drives 5
> 1/4"
>
> The I got a ole Coleco Adam. :)
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Woeber <scoville300@worldnet.att.net>
> To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
> Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 5:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] ZX-80/computer history
>
> >Norbert Cartagena wrote:
> >>>>> Yes I remember Word Star on an 8088(remember that!) On Word Star you
> >>>>> would type a page of text then go to the bathroom, get a cup of
> >>>>> coffee and return to your seat and read the paper while the computer
> >>>>> saved the
> >>>>> page of text you had typed.
> >>
> >> Didn't WordStar become StarOffice eventually?
> >>
> >> Gnorb
> >> *sitting back, reading all this ancient history and scrybing it in
> >> papyrus.*
> >
> >I am not sure about WordStar to StarOffice. If so, what a transition,
> >as I like the interoperatibiliy of STarOffice. Still a fan of Word
> >having migrated from Wordperfect. No help in Kword, just "insert text
> >here". Come on KDE, start working on docs for your GUI.
> >
> >Andy W.
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