[Year 12 IT Apps] [OT] Reeling back the versions...

[Robert Hind]

Wordstar 3.3, I think, running under DOS 3.3 on my Kaypro back in 1986. The whole thing, including spell checker on two 5 1/4 floppies - fantastic. Word Perfect I have less than favourable memories of. My wife used the educational version for her assignments while at uni. At one stage managed to save a completely blank file over her previously completed assignment. I remember spending a whole weekend with PCTools finding and reassembling her docs from the floppy. 

Robert Hind
Retired
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark 
  To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List 
  Sent: Thursunning day, June 13, 2013 12:51 PM
  Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] [OT] Reeling back the versions...


  ...and memorising the dozens of ALT/CTRL/Fn key shortcuts... not much better than Wordstar in that respect!


  But I absolutely loved and still miss the ability to 'Reveal Codes' to manually adjust WP's formatting codes.
  Word has always been a monster for not allowing us to manage its nasty embedded codes.



  On 13 June 2013 11:32, Savage, John L <savage.john.l at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

    Still hunting for WordPerfect 5.1 and the WordPerfect Office DOS desktop! Possibly the greatest text-based switching and “multitasking” environment ever built – it supported all sorts of wonderful macros that would let all my open applications talk with each other (even Paradox to WordPerfect)













    From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
    Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 9:33 PM
    To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
    Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] [OT] Reeling back the versions...



    Hmm, it would be interesting to see if anybody can get Napser working again, curious about where it left off and it stimulated some good discussions amongst the students last month about copyright and marketshare. Perhaps in a VM it could work .. 

         http://www.oldapps.com/napster.php



    Crikey ... Netscape for WIn3.1 .oO( memories )

         http://www.oldapps.com/netscape.php



    Regards Roland

    Roland Gesthuizen
    http://about.me/rgesthuizen 



    On 11/06/2013, at 12:26 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:





    Hi all. 



    If you've ever installed a new version of a program and regretted it forever because it was broken, it had removed your favourite features, or it had turned into a bloated tub of useless lard, this site may be useful to you...



    http://www.oldapps.com/



    It's great when a software "upgrade" isn't what you expected.
     

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    Mark Kelly

    mark AT vceit DOT com

    http://vceit.com



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  mark AT vceit DOT com
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