On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:06, yuri wrote:
> On 14/11/05, Ken.McAllister wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 11:52 +1300, Mike Pearce wrote:
> > > Text Cut/Paste etc - Also known as block commands
> > >
> > > To mark the Beginning of the text use    ^KB
> > > To make the End of the text use          ^KK
> > > To Move marked block to current location ^KM
> > > To copy to current location use          ^KC
> > > To delete marked block                   ^KY
> >
> > It's all coming back to me!  WordStar, circa 1980.
> > The Kaypro Portable (15 cm green screen, 10 mb hard drive) was something
> > like $10 000.  Only used car dealers and sheep farmers could afford
> > them.
>
> Yup. I remember WordStar on Dad's old ICL running Concurrent C/PM-86.
> One 8086 processor chugging at about 4MHz could support several users
> on serial terminals.

I had a DEC Rainbow for about two years.  Not a bad machine.  PIP was _not_ a 
pleasant experience!
> We still used it up to the early to mid nineties. It was replaced by a
> 486 running OS/2 warp in 1995.
>
> Yuri
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