At 03:48 PM 24/02/03 -0800, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote: >Back in the day, (1987 to be exact) WordStar 3.3 ran off of a single 5.25" >floppy. Those were 360KB in capacity. Wordstar would also cheerfuily allow >you to delete every blessed file off of that 360KB floppy, including the >executable and the overlay files. I destroyed the first warez copy of >WordStar I ever had that way.
I suppose now one could run "joe", a Unix work-alike of Wordstar on OSX. Slightly more user-friendly than vi. And more on topic, the very first time I used a Mac, a 1st generation one, no hard disk, I inserted the system floppy (which I had borrowed). A prompt came up "Initialise disk?" Since this seemed to mean "begin", I clicked to go ahead, and of course the disk was reformatted. More disturbingly, on my Beige, about 1 time in 10 boots the IDE disk fails to be recognised, and the same message comes up, so I am very careful how I respond -- the default is to reformat. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
