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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