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<p>In 1984, I was Editor at Easy Home Computer. I used a
Spectravideo 318 (chiclet keyboard) and upgraded Spectravideo 328
(full keyboard) to do some projects from my Redactron days, and
then the writing for Easy Home Computer. <br>
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<p>Back then, I was fairly agnostic about which word processor to
use. Commodore gave me a Commodore 64 Executive (a 'portable' -
sewing machine - with a 5" color display). When I switched to
becoming Software Editor at Electronic Design, I did much of my
writing on it. The other editors didn't like that I could write on
a computer, edit my text on the computer, and wouldn't need the
pool of typists who retyped our edited stuff - and the typing pool
hated it. <br>
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<p>They rightly feared that their re-typing jobs were in danger, and
many of the editors feared that they may have to (ugh, god help
me) write and edit on a computer. <br>
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<p>Oh -- the original Mac Write wasn't developed by apple -- when I
moved into Forest Hills, Queens in 1984, my neighbor was an editor
for Macmillan - they had an internal word processor - and called
it Mac Write. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/20/2019 11:16 AM, Mark Brownstein
via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
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<p>I had a word processing business before I went both feet into
writing. When I started using WordStar, I used a program called
Smartkeys to map the Burroughs Redactron keyboard to WordStar.
Eventually, I had to migrate over to WordStar. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/19/2019 11:35 AM, Logan
Harbaugh via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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me, it wasn’t the interface that I miss it was the ability
to jump to page 243 of a 400 page document in less than a
split jiffy. No distractions, no worrying about
formatting, just plain writing. My favorite was Xywrite on
CP/M (on a Kaypro II), but the same themes apply. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Logan
G. Harbaugh<br>
<a href="mailto:logan@lharba.com" moz-do-not-send="true">logan@lharba.com</a></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:navy"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">530-243-1346</span><span
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</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">1547
Magnolia Ave.</span><span
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CA 96001</span><span
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href="http://www.lharba.com/" moz-do-not-send="true">www.lharba.com</a></span><span
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Ipg-smz [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org"
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ipg-smz<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Phil Shapiro<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ipg-smz] Style your Google Docs to
look like WordStar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> We
all know that sjvn would much prefer to be writing
in WordStar (from circa 1981), using the CP/M
operating system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Well, now you can, using this importable style
for Google Docs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><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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Fun to have open on your laptop when you're at
conferences. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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You just tell people nonchalantly, "I prefer
writing in WordStar. I just upgraded to the latest
version of WordStar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">(pause)
Do you use WordStar, too?"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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phil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Don't
forget to change to Courier font -- for the real
thing experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">--<br>
Phil Shapiro, <a
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href="http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro</a><br>
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href="http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/stories.menu.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/stories.menu.html</a><br>
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"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br>
"Learning happens thru gentleness."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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Neue","serif";color:#333333;background:white">"We must
reinvent a future free of blinders so that we
can choose from real options." David Suzuki</span><span
style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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