<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div>omg, Mac. That is notable contribution to early microcomputer history. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> Folks -- see <!--StartFragment--><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Computer_Corporation" data-mce-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Computer_Corporation">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Computer_Corporation</a><!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"ipg-smz" <ipg-smz@netpress.org><br><b>To: </b>"ipg-smz" <ipg-smz@netpress.org><br><b>Cc: </b>"mac mccarthy" <mac.mccarthy@gmail.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:47:00 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Ipg-smz] Style your Google Docs to look like WordStar<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div><div dir="auto">I wrote/adapted the Wordstar user manual for the Osborne!</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mac</div><div><br><div class="elided-text"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 7:35 PM Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Seymour Rubenstein always knew his secret.</p>
<p>I wrote six books in Wordstar.... and helped modify the MP/M
version, long ago.</p>
<p>Tom</p>
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<div>On 11/19/19 2:02 PM, Dan Rosenbaum via
Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wait. I thought you wrote in vi.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">d</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From: </b>Ipg-smz
<a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org></a> on behalf of Steven
Vaughan-Nichols via Ipg-smz <a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><ipg-smz@netpress.org></a><br>
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<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 1:41 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><ipg-smz@netpress.org></a><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Steven Vaughan-Nichols <a href="mailto:sjvn@vna1.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><sjvn@vna1.com></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Ipg-smz] Style your Google Docs to
look like WordStar</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I approve of this plan. ^KD</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Steven</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 1:22 PM Phil
Shapiro via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> We all know that sjvn
would much prefer to be writing in WordStar
(from circa 1981), using the CP/M operating
system.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Well, now you can,
using this importable style for Google Docs. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://userstyles.org/styles/130410/wordstar-customizable-theme-for-google-docs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://userstyles.org/styles/130410/wordstar-customizable-theme-for-google-docs</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Fun to have
open on your laptop when you're at
conferences. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> You just tell
people nonchalantly, "I prefer writing in
WordStar. I just upgraded to the latest
version of WordStar.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(pause) Do you use
WordStar, too?"</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> phil</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Don't forget to change
to Courier font -- for the real thing
experience.</p>
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"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br>
"Learning happens thru gentleness."</p>
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future free of blinders so that we can
choose from real options." David Suzuki</p>
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