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Re: What was your first word-processor?
- Subject: Re: What was your first word-processor?
- From: jeffr@bnr.ca (Jeffrey Robertson)
- Date: 1997/06/09
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Nortel (Northern Telecom), Ottawa
- References: <5nbtd7$98c$1@mercury.mcs.net>
- Reply-to: jeffr@nortel.ca
In article <5nbtd7$98c$1@mercury.mcs.net>, Jorn Barger <jorn@MCS.COM> wrote:
>
>1979: Apple Computer releases Paul Lutus's AppleWriter 1.0 for Apple2
This was my first WP. It came bundled with my Apple IIplus
"Family System". 40 column screen and all uppercase, with
inverse text to indicate caps.
Actually, it was kind of beneficial not having WYSIWYG.
Helped form the notion that text entry and output
formatting are two different things.
Cheers,
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Jeffrey Robertson | jeffr@nortel.ca | N O R T E L
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