A huge step up!
WordStar came on my first Osborne 2, and it was a massive step up from Teco->Runoff on the DEC 8 I had then -- the latter was always a fingers crossed thing, like when I once printed out the whole of a paper I wrote in Greek, having neglected to turn off Greek in the first few lines. The Greek journal I submitted it to seemed not to be able to make any sense of it. Anyway, WordStar on one floppy, files on the other. I was totally smitten, and remained so for many years up until my co-authors could no longer read my work. It now takes me considerably longer to write in MS365 Word, just because the things I always want to do are hidden deep behind the things I never want to do--and what I write is too big for those huge floppies. The world has become obese.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
