Re: What was your first word-processor?

[tturner@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca ()]

Crow fred (crowfred@aol.com) wrote:
: How about ScreenWriter from about 1980 or 81 ??? I can remember using it
: on a old Apple II that I had updated to a +.  Shortly after that I moved
: over to Magic Words or Writter (??) by Artisi --- which I used until I had
: a IIe and a Beta copy (bootleg) of AppleWorks.  Oh those were the days !!
: Fred
--> My first word processor was one called PIE Writer. It was weird.
    It didn't word wrap on the screen; it just showed a ">" at the
    right edge of the screen to indicate there was text beyond that
    point on that line. It did other things quite oddly, as well;
    but that's the only thing I can clearly remember. I switched to
    HomeWord (the DOS version - the ProDOS one didn't come out for a
    few years more) and used it a lot. I quite enjoyed it. I liked
    the on screen `preview' of what the page looked like and the
    graphical menu across the bottom of the screen was nice, too. I
    used HomeWord up until v1.2 of AppleWorks. I used AppleWorks
    until Multiscribe came out and then used that. I also tried
    GeoWrite - but since it wouldn't run from a hard drive; I quit
    using that and went back to Multiscribe. I tried bunches of
    other word processors as well - but none of them did the trick.
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