Yeah, it seemed to run in slow motion compared to today's standards, but that was intentional. Do a search and replace and it would delete the original word letter by letter, and then type the replacement word letter by letter. No surprises for us guys who had been using a typewriter for 20 years.
Jeffery On Oct 2, 2010, at 12:48 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Jeffery Smith >> Whenever a new technology is introduced, there is an explosion of >> interest followed by improvements at a rapid pace followed by a >> plateau where things sort of stay the same, followed by survival of >> the fittest as the best things survive and the others disappear. >> >> This all reminds me of personal computer and software in about >> 1985-6. At one point, there were about 30 kinds of word processors >> all trying to make it to the top, some based on power, some based on >> user friendliness. One PC magazine had an issue devoted to a view of >> each (remember Einstein Writer, Perfect Writer, XyWrite II, Nota >> Bene, Volkswriter, WordStar, PFS Write, DisplayWrite, Leading Edge >> WP?) > > Come to think of it, I have a copy of Professional Write (later version of > PFS Write AFAIK) somewhere around the house. It was about as close to typing > on a type-writer as a word processor came. > > Easy formatting, you want at tab click on the ruler where you want the tab to > be; want to indent, drag the margin; CTRL+B = Bold, CTRL+I = Italics, CTRL+U > = underline; highlight, cut & paste and you've about exhausted the formatting > options. > > No auto-format; no need to get all wrapped around the axle fighting the > program to get it to do what you want to do like with M$ Word. Didn't have to > tell it how you want to do things, you just did them. > > Wonder if it would run under Vista in a DOS box? > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
