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

[Logan Harbaugh]

I accidentally started a business. I bought the Kaypro, and to pay for it, offered a number of services, word processing, spreadsheets, form letters, etc., to six businesses in the area. A year later, through word of mouth, I had so much business that I had to either drop out of college (for the second time), or sell the business. I sold the business, and the guy I sold it to, built it into a good-sized company. 

 

 

Thanks, 

Logan G. Harbaugh
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 Mark Brownstein via Ipg-smz
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 11:17 AM
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Cc: Mark Brownstein
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Style your Google Docs to look like WordStar

 

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
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
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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.

 

 






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