“Question for those of you who used Wordstar back in the day - did you like it?”
Michael J. Cohen (mjc), ♫ Rahsheen™, Lindsay Donaghe and 2 other people liked this
YES. More than anything else. WAY more than WordPerfect - Nine
OMG I remember WordStar! WordPerfect totally kicked it's ass tho... then MS Word killed both despite the fact the WP was actually better than everything else out there - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
Meh on Wordstar. Wordperfect in the late '80's/'early 90's FTW! - Helen Sventitsky
You betcha. Wordstar was great. Once I moved over to PC and GUI, I used WP for many years. I guess everyone also remembers Function key keyboard templates? Never could use those things :) - JC unwired
Yes! It was my first word processing software. - AJ Batac
yes - Glen Campbell
I still remember some of the commands. Ctrl K D to save? - Mike Doeff
That was "Save and exit" I believe. Ctrl K S was save? - JC unwired
Here ya go, a walk down memory lane for nerds: http://www.comsc.ucok.edu/~mcd... - JC unwired
It was better than a typewriter, and a billion times more intimidating to non-computer literate people. - Pete Delucchi
F5 Directory Listing F7 Print! OMG I still remember those Function keys & the templates! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
+1 Peter - and that's why it was so great! :) - WorldofHiglet
It was a very tightly-written piece of software. It did a lot with not a whole lot of code. Better yet, there were patches floating around to customize and enhance Wordstar. - Morton Fox
WorldofHiglet, it pissed my mom off to no end. She was all Luddite and stuck to her typewriter afraid of the crazy Wordstar. Now, of course, you can't keep her off the email. - Pete Delucchi
I think I almost used wordstar once...serious - ♫ Rahsheen™
emacs. - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
I still have a unopened, boxed Wordstar for Windows if you want it. - Eric @ CS Techcast
The one and only advanced editor for my tiny CP/M - Z80 box in the early 80'ies. Inspired me to write my own editor - in assembly... crazy days! - Bo Stern
Kedit or Xedit on IBM VM/SP on IBM 360/370, anyone? ;) - silpol
Wow! Thanks for the passion. I never used it - I went from nroff macros to a THEOS word processor to Microsoft Word for the Mac (with a brief detour to FullWrite Professional), to Word for Windows, skipping Wordstar altogether. - Ontario Emperor
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