I also had a Sinclair ZX-80 with the 16k backpack.
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Centanni" <ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] windows emulators
> Carnsarn it all you bunch of young whippersnappers! (he barks while
> grabbing at his upper plate flying across the room, that hits the
> one-eyed cat who then jumps and knocks over the Sinclair ZX-80, which
> falls on the keys of the TRS-80 model 200 portable and starts WWW III by
> sending a message at 300 baud to the worlds lone surviving pirate BBS).
>
> 'Way back long, long ago, I remember installing a text mode WordPerfect
> (5.someodd) for a client on an Altos computer with serial terminals and
> some kind of unix-like OS (SCO?!) 'way back in 1990 or there 'bouts. It
> was probably available for unix several years before even that. 'Course
> that was 'way before Corel bought it, GUI'ed it and screweyed it.
>
> Bottom line: WordPerfect has been available for unix-like platforms at
> LEAST 12 or more years that I'm aware of.
>
> Anybody remember (dare I say it!) WordStar?
>
> Ed.
>
>
> bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>
> > Corel has had word perfect versions for Unix and Linux for over 4 years.
>
> <snip>
>
>
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