I STILL have my Sinclair ZX-80 with it's whooping 16K expansion module AND
the game Star Trail! Remember, don't bump that module. DO you remember the
options you could by to make the module more secure?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brother Timothy" <irisinc@tbi.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] windows emulators
> Ed Centanni wrote:
> >
> > 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>
>
> 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.
>
> Remember also that Word Perfect was the "Word Processor" long before
> Gates & Company stole most of their features and incorporated "Microsoft
> Word".
>
> Timothy
>
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