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Amanda#WordPerfect 5.1. The tightest three and a half megs of #code ever written.
I will die on this hill.
@teacher_rick @bert_hubert Ik ben nooit overgestapt naar Word en gebruik WordPerfect nog steeds. De opmaak doen met Word is Kwalitatief Uitermate Teleurstellend, dus ben ik (sinds 1988) gewoon bij #WordPerfect gebleven. Wel met diverse upgrades uiteraard.
R. L. Dane (Pixelfed)Had a bit of a fun adventure this morning. For some reason, I was thinking about the funny, but emotional #BedBathAndBeyond scene in #TheGoodPlace, and I remembered that they had closed all their stores. I was wondering if there was anything left of the one closest to me, so I decided to drive there on a whim.
Nope, nothing left, it's a Planet Fitness now, which is funny. You can tell it's the same physical location by the shape of the building and windows/doors, but there isn't even a shadow of the former sign there.
While I was there, I was *very* surprised to see that there was a real-life brick-and-mortar OfficeMax practically next door!
#OfficeMax!!! Memories flooded my mind of buying my trusty #HP48G in an OfficeMax in 1994, and of browsing various #PDAs at my local #OfficeDepot in #OKC in the mid-#2000s.
And imagine my surprise to see actual boxed software there. Including #WordPerfect!!! What!! That's so groovy.
They also had several boxes of #McAfee #AntiVirus, which... KILL IT WITH FIRE. Utter garbage software. XD
I also saw a bunch of #Moleskines there, which reminded me of @[email protected] and @[email protected]'s conversation about Moleskines, and the nostalgia hit me right then and there, but I didn't buy one for want of a suitable pen (and of course, I know the paper quality is pretty meh).
Still, fun little jaunt, and a jaunt down memory lane. 😊
https://lazybea.rs/ovr-022/
Nope, nothing left, it's a Planet Fitness now, which is funny. You can tell it's the same physical location by the shape of the building and windows/doors, but there isn't even a shadow of the former sign there.
While I was there, I was *very* surprised to see that there was a real-life brick-and-mortar OfficeMax practically next door!
#OfficeMax!!! Memories flooded my mind of buying my trusty #HP48G in an OfficeMax in 1994, and of browsing various #PDAs at my local #OfficeDepot in #OKC in the mid-#2000s.
And imagine my surprise to see actual boxed software there. Including #WordPerfect!!! What!! That's so groovy.
They also had several boxes of #McAfee #AntiVirus, which... KILL IT WITH FIRE. Utter garbage software. XD
I also saw a bunch of #Moleskines there, which reminded me of @[email protected] and @[email protected]'s conversation about Moleskines, and the nostalgia hit me right then and there, but I didn't buy one for want of a suitable pen (and of course, I know the paper quality is pretty meh).
Still, fun little jaunt, and a jaunt down memory lane. 😊
https://lazybea.rs/ovr-022/
Retro TechieInstalling WordPerfect 6 for DOS
#RetroTech #90sComputing #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #1990sTech #MSDOS #WordPerfect
Lance, ready for Fall to beginI'm old enough that my primary association with "WP" is WordPerfect. #WordPerfect
Preishals
md_handbookNew post: The Markdown Link no. 12
Among today’s links are #markdowneditors Deepdwn and MarkLite, toolbar app Append, quick-capture app Kraa, and Mat Duggan plumbs the depths of the #filesystem
https://md-markdown.com/blog/markdown-link-no-12/
#markdown #Fountain #MSWord #WordStar #WordPerfect #Deepdwn #MarkLite #Append
Antti Peltola ⁂WordPerfect sits in the middle between LaTeX and Word when it comes to its document model.
It's a stream processor like LaTeX that just has a raw stream of text with tags applied to the text for formatting control.
It's a word processor like Word that shows you how that raw stream of text with tags looks on the document without having to recompile the document each time to see the results.
Anyone who wants to do a new FOSS document processor, please blatantly steal this model.
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)RE: https://mastodon.world/@anttipeltola/116169203304658997
Looking back at the history of #WordPerfect—looks like I must have started using it in 1990, maybe even 1991, not 1989 as I had thought. I began with v. 5.1 (though I had played with v. 5) and given the timing, it must have crossed over in the 1990s. Before then it would have been Wordstar on the IBM PC-compatible and SuperScript on the Commodore 64.
LibreOffice Writer is too quirky. I add in hard returns, it takes them out when I press enter after the paragraph. Same with tabs. Still no one touches #WordPerfect for usability.