[Ipg-smz] Style your Google Docs to look like WordStar

[Mark Brownstein]

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.

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.

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.

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.


On 11/20/2019 11:16 AM, Mark Brownstein via Ipg-smz wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> On 11/19/2019 11:35 AM, Logan Harbaugh via Ipg-smz wrote:
>>
>> For 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.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Logan G. Harbaugh
>> logan at lharba.com <mailto:logan at lharba.com>
>> 530-243-1346
>> 1547 Magnolia Ave.
>> Redding, CA 96001
>> www.lharba.com <http://www.lharba.com/>
>>
>> *From:*Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] *On Behalf Of 
>> *Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:23 AM
>> *To:* ipg-smz
>> *Cc:* Phil Shapiro
>> *Subject:* [Ipg-smz] Style your Google Docs to look like WordStar
>>
>>   We all know that sjvn would much prefer to be writing in WordStar 
>> (from circa 1981), using the CP/M operating system.
>>
>>  Well, now you can, using this importable style for Google Docs.
>>
>> https://userstyles.org/styles/130410/wordstar-customizable-theme-for-google-docs 
>>
>>
>> Fun to have open on your laptop when you're at conferences.
>>
>>  You just tell people nonchalantly, "I prefer writing in WordStar. I 
>> just upgraded to the latest version of WordStar.
>>
>> (pause) Do you use WordStar, too?"
>>
>>            phil
>>
>> Don't forget to change to Courier font -- for the real thing experience.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Phil Shapiro, pshapiro at his.com
>> http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/briefbio.html
>> http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro
>> http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/stories.menu.html
>>
>> "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates
>> "Learning happens thru gentleness."
>>
>> "We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose 
>> from real options."  David Suzuki
>>
>>
>
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