I‘m inclined to leave the previous two posts here to represent me during the next few weeks. I’m actually quite well satisfied with them.
Meanwhile, I’m clearing out my basement, building a legacy computer, working on the promised memoir, and thinking about building myself a basement workbench to fill the space I’m freeing up downstairs.
Of course I still have to go through the scores of boxes of old papers I have accumulated and find some way to clear out the electronic gear that’s been piling up for the last couple of decades and gathering dust.
That ought to be enough to keep me alive for a while longer, dontcha think?
You don’t happen to have an old Adam Osborne C/PM system around do you? Wordstar was a great word processor.
I don’t, Curtis. Sorry. I never used Wordstar. My first computer was a used TI professional I bought from North Texas at a time when the TI computers were being phased out in favor of home-built PCs that were XT clones. I had learned to word process on one of those TI computers, using WordPerfect 4.0 and continued to use WordPerfect up through the first edition for Windows. The TI computers were more or less compatible with the XTs, but I got rid of mine when my work began to require me to use the Internet. Then, the university signed the first of a series of contracts with Microsoft and we all switched to Word. When I retired from North Texas in 2002, the university was still building its own PCs. As a nice perk, the Microsoft contracts had given me access to software at reduced cost for years by then. I still have some of the old installation CDs.
WordPerfect 4.0 ! My heart be still. I loved that blank screen with the blinking cursor in the upper left corner. The switch to Windows was not a happy day for me.