What appealed to me was how much like writing on a typewriter it was.
On 3/26/2015 8:01 AM, Paul Sorenson wrote:
Prof Write was a decent word processor and the other software in the
PFS series were good as well - PFS Plan as a spreadsheet and PFS File
for a database. File was a flat file rather than relational but did
have some handy form filling capabilities.
-p
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On Mar 25, 2015, at 2:18 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
The first word processor I used was Professional Write (aka
Pfs:Write).
It had a *VERY* typewriter like interface that allowed you to
adjust margins & tabs on a ruler that ran across the top of the
screen.
Simple controls - Ctrl+B for Boldface, Ctrl+U to underline ...
Ctrl+Enter started a new page. All the controls were simple toggles
so Ctrl+B turned it on and Ctrl+B again turned it off. It also
supported "Cut/Copy and Paste" (Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V) and you
could use a mouse to position the cursor & drag to select text.
The thing that WordPerfect had going for it was the number of
printers it supported, and Professional Write could use any printer
that had a WordPerfect driver.
On 3/24/2015 11:01 PM, John Coyle wrote: First WP software I used
was WordPerfect - the name tells a lie, it was an absolute
nightmare to use compared with Word, when Word arrived I switched
in a heartbeat! I also used Lotus WordPro, not as good as Word
in some ways but had advantages in others - like allowing me to
define a custom envelope size before Microsoft acknowledged sizes
other than American. Sill use it for some purposes - you can
tell it was well-written software when it was created in 1997 and
still works on Windows 7.
John in Brisbane
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Re: What does everyone now use?
Am 24.03.15 um 21:43 schrieb steve harley:
i chose Amiga for the affordability, the multi-tasking OS and
the fact it did four channels of 8-bit digital audio
Not to forget the graphics. Far better than what any IBM
compatible PC had to offer, at least in the early days. In the
end, I had an A3000T with a 50 MHz 68060 accelerator board. The
absolutely brilliant Shapeshifter (some sort of Parallels to make
Mac OS run on an Amiga) made it the fastest 68060 Mac that Apple
never built.
Word Perfect as a word processor wasn't that bad either.
Ralf
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