[ale] Introduction and info about myself

[Tom Freeman]

I don't remember anything Xerox, but would that be about the same time as 
a kaypro II CP/M machine? With a daisey wheel printer that shook the 
building...

On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, James Taylor wrote:

> Age is relative. After all, who hasn't used Wordstar on a CP/M based
> Xerox 820 with the mapped function keys?
> (*crickets chirping*)
> -jt
>
>
> James Taylor
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
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>>>> "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> 10/29/2012   02:34 PM >>> 
> Wordstar.   Ahem... you're - uh - age is showing   :p
>
> My start in computers was working on a PC with DOS 2.0 with Lotus 123
> version 1A.   Back in those days even the format command assumed you
> meant "the current drive" so if you typed "format" rather than "format
> A:" after inserting a floppy it would happily overwrite the C: drive
> you'd started the format command from.  Back then we didn't even have
> "D'oh!" to express our feelings as it was pre-Simpsons.
>
> I remember when I first used Wordperfect on Novel version 2 and how its
> big selling point was that you could hide or display formatting codes at
> will so it was an improvement over Wordstar which until then had been
> the killer word processing app.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Beddingfield, Allen
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 2:20 PM
> To: simontek at gmail.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself
>
> I suppose I fall into the vi category, since I have only used emacs
> onceŠwell, I opened it once, and then I spent all of the time it was
> open trying to figure out how to get out of it :D  Figuring out the pid
> at another terminal and killing it works nicely, BTW.
> As for nano/pico - my nickname for them is "The line-wrapping config
> file mangler!"  They work great a long as no one opens a complex config
> file with really long lines.  I'm also partial to joe, since I used to
> be a WordStar fanatic, and most of the key sequences match up -
> especially when you open it with "jstar"
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
>
>
>
> On 10/29/12 12:17 PM, "simontek at gmail.com" <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I use vi myself. A lot of people I know use nano, only 2 people I
> know
>> use emacs. I figure if I have to use a manual just to exit the
> program, I
>> don't need it.
>> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at tux86.org>
>> Sender: ale-bounces at ale.org
>> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:09:45
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<ale at ale.org>
>> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself
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