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    <p>And my first Queue book was _The Osborne Portable Computer_! <br>
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    <p>I learned Wordstar on an Altos system long before.... then on
      S-100 systems.<br>
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    <p>Tom<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/19/19 10:47 PM, Mac McCarthy via
      Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
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        <div dir="auto">I wrote/adapted the Wordstar user manual for the
          Osborne!</div>
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      <div dir="auto">Mac</div>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 7:35
            PM Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz <<a
              href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" moz-do-not-send="true">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>>
            wrote:<br>
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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><span>From: </span></b><span>Ipg-smz
                        <a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org"
                          target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org></a>
                        on behalf of Steven Vaughan-Nichols via Ipg-smz
                        <a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org"
                          target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><ipg-smz@netpress.org></a><br>
                        <b>Reply-To: </b><a
                          href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org"
                          target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><ipg-smz@netpress.org></a><br>
                        <b>Date: </b>Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 1:41
                        PM<br>
                        <b>To: </b><a
                          href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org"
                          target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><ipg-smz@netpress.org></a><br>
                        <b>Cc: </b>Steven Vaughan-Nichols <a
                          href="mailto:sjvn@vna1.com" target="_blank"
                          moz-do-not-send="true"><sjvn@vna1.com></a><br>
                        <b>Subject: </b>Re: [Ipg-smz] Style your Google
                        Docs to look like WordStar</span></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span>I approve of this plan.
                          ^KD</span></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Steven</span></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" moz-do-not-send="true">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>>
                        wrote:</p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span>  We all know
                                    that sjvn would much prefer to be
                                    writing in WordStar (from circa
                                    1981), using the CP/M operating
                                    system.</span></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span>     Well,
                                    now you can, using this importable
                                    style for Google Docs. </span></p>
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                              <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span><a
href="https://userstyles.org/styles/130410/wordstar-customizable-theme-for-google-docs"
                                      target="_blank"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true">https://userstyles.org/styles/130410/wordstar-customizable-theme-for-google-docs</a>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span>        Fun
                                    to have open on your laptop when
                                    you're at conferences.  </span></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span>         You
                                    just tell people nonchalantly, "I
                                    prefer writing in WordStar. I just
                                    upgraded to the latest version of
                                    WordStar.</span></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span>(pause)  Do
                                    you use WordStar, too?"</span></p>
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                              <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span>             
                                         phil</span></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Don't forget
                                    to change to Courier font -- for the
                                    real thing experience.</span></p>
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                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>--<br>
                                      Phil Shapiro, <a
                                        href="mailto:pshapiro@his.com"
                                        target="_blank"
                                        moz-do-not-send="true">pshapiro@his.com</a><br>
                                      <a
                                        href="http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/briefbio.html"
                                        target="_blank"
                                        moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/briefbio.html</a><br>
                                      <a
                                        href="http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro"
                                        target="_blank"
                                        moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro</a><br>
                                      <a
                                        href="http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/stories.menu.html"
                                        target="_blank"
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                                      <br>
                                      "Wisdom begins with wonder." -
                                      Socrates<br>
                                      "Learning happens thru
                                      gentleness."</span></p>
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                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span>"We must
                                      reinvent a future free of blinders
                                      so that we can choose from real
                                      options."  David Suzuki</span><span></span></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal">-- </p>
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              <pre cols="72">-- 
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ExtremeLabs, Inc.
+1 317 250 4646
Twitter: @extremelabs
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          <p><span>Mac McCarthy</span></p>
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Tom Henderson
ExtremeLabs, Inc.
+1 317 250 4646
Twitter: @extremelabs
Skype: extremelabsinc</pre>
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