New post: WordStar: the pre-Microsoft Word days

WordStar was the hand I was dealt when I started working with computers back in the 1980s. It was also probably the cheapest word processor on the market, knowing my boss

https://md-handbook.com/blog/wordstar-pre-microsoft-word-days/

#WordStar #MSWord #wordprocessors #textonly #plaintext

New 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

Pitihän se testata myös WordStar. Game of Thrones -kirjojen kirjottaja George R.R. Martin käyttää tätä edelleen, joskin MS DOS versiota. Pystyy kuulemma paremmin keskittymään itse kirjoittamiseen kun ei ole turhia krumeluureja ympärillä. Pitäisi jostain löytää vanha Centronics liitäntäinen tulostin, niin pääsisi testaamaan tulostamista. Mieluiten "daisy wheel" tyyppinen, mutta kai pistematriisikin kelpaisi. Tähän saa SPP adapterin jolla homma hoituisi.😝🤪

#cpm #wordstar

I take an interest in what people think is "before the internet", as people seem to have widely differing notions, but this is a novel twist to me.

Nice article about Michael J Fox's new memoir, but 1985 was neither pre-internet nor *pre-word processor*. For example, WarGames in its initial scene setting was a reasonably accurate film portrayal of what you could do with a modem in 1983, and WordStar launched in 1978.
#internet #wordstar #hollywood

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/14/future-boy-by-michael-j-fox-review-secrets-from-the-set-of-a-definitive-80s-movie

Do you remember using WordStar on the Televideo Tele-PC? Of course you don’t!
But now you can. Don’t you want to frob that keyboard?

#retrocomputing #dos #pc #wordstar #wordprocessor