25 years of MS Word

[tenox]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/152585/microsoft_word_turns_25.html

 

[Chuck(G)]

I still have the 5.25" demo disk for the first version of Word that was bound into issues of PCWorld.

 

[per]

I still have the 5.25" demo disk for the first version of Word that was bound into issues of PCWorld.

May you image it and post it here?

 

[Chuck(G)]

May you image it and post it here?

I'll dig around in my files for it and do that this week.

 

[Mike Chambers]

ew ms word. i'll stick with my openoffice.

 

[Yzzerdd]

Ew, OpenOffice(which is actually a pretty good word processor)

I'll stick with Word Perfect 5.0

Or IBM's Write Assistant

--Jack

 

[Terry Yager]

Ew, OpenOffice(which is actually a pretty good word processor)

I'll stick with Word Perfect 5.0

Or IBM's Write Assistant

--Jack

EEwww, whatever he said...I still like WordStar 3.0!

--T

 

[frozenfire75i]

Yuck, I go for a program called "word proof"

EEwww, whatever he said...I still like WordStar 3.0!

--T

 

[Chuck(G)]

Ew, OpenOffice(which is actually a pretty good word processor)

I didn't realize that OpenOffice ran on a 5150 PC.

 

[Jorg]

Yuck, I go for a program called "word proof"

EDLIN ought to be enough for anyone...

 

[wmmullaney]

I just use "Type"

 

[per]

Microsoft still got Word 5.5 for DOS avalible form their web-site. There is a link at the "Microsoft Word" page of Wikipedia if anybody is interested in how user-friendly it is (It runs just perfect in Windows XP at least, the Tutorial even works too!).

ew ms word. i'll stick with my openoffice.

Try to write "StarWriterTeam" and press F3! (See: http://www.eeggs.com/tree/9996.html )

 

[Terry Yager]

Yuck, I go for a program called "word proof"

I'd have said 'Electric Pencil', but I don't have the lower-case mod...

--T

 

[Chuck(G)]

I'd have said 'Electric Pencil', but I don't have the lower-case mod...

Too much featuritis...gimme TECO.

P.S. You can find a version of TECO for several common platforms here.

 

[Mike Chambers]

edlin ought to be enough for anyone...

type con>file.txt

 

[Mike Chambers]

I'd have said 'Electric Pencil', but I don't have the lower-case mod...

--T

back when the family owned a leading edge 8088, we used to use Electric Desk.

 

[Chuck(G)]

Okay, anyone who wants a copy of the October, 1983 PC World MS Demo diskette can get it here for the next 3 days.

It's a self-extracting diskette image file. You'll need a 360K diskette and DOS to do the deed, although once you've done that, you can copy the files anywhere.

Interesting that a limited-capability edition of Word fit on a 160K SSDD diskette in 1983, with 5K to spare...

 

[tezza]

type con>file.txt

LOL! Yes, that's about as basic as it can get :D

Tez

 

[Chuck(G)]

LOL! Yes, that's about as basic as it can get :D

Yes, but can you type your name and end up with a valid command sequence?

 

[Chuckster_in_Jax]

EDLIN ought to be enough for anyone...

You must be joking!!! I'm not laughing!

I remember having to do computer science projects using VI editor. Painful experience. Some people thought it was the shiznit.