bert hubert πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦Nov 27, 2024
Did you know that @libreoffice will cheerfully open WordPerfect files created by 34 year old software? Quite remarkable.
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@bert_hubert @libreoffice @sesivany

Not only that, it opens a document from #Text602. If you don’t know what it is, you are not a #Czech (or #Slovak), or you are under 25.

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text602

Text602 – Wikipedie

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@mcepl @bert_hubert @libreoffice @sesivany did you mean more under 45 :) ... yeah T602 and dot matrix printing, where one makes first font bold when tape was running out and then larger size+bold and only then months later buying new tape, did anyone use the same strategy πŸ™ƒ
Nov 28, 2024 at 9:47pmWeb
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@mahdi @bert_hubert @libreoffice @sesivany

I have actually seen it in a law office around 2000: being non-proportional, it was used for printing envelopes.