[arachne] Re: WORDSTAR 4 AND OTHER DOS EDITORS

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Just checked. The Trio website says they no longer sell Word Star. They
suggest eBay. Or some guy in India has a stash for $25 a copy. I thought
nobody much liked Wordstar, but I guess there's no accounting for
personal preference.

For years I was very fond of a little word processing program called
"Super Writer" which was the companion to a popular spreadsheet called
"Super-Calc". Fast and easy to use. Menus. Copyright 1982! I saw adds
in old magazines that offered "Super Writer" for $454!!! And the whole
thing fit on an old style 5 1/4 floppy.

We forget how expensive computer stuff used to be.



Brian C. Murphy said:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> With respect to the choices of decent DOS editors in the discussion a few
> days ago, I forgot at the time to mention that a company called TRIO,
> which
> can be found on the Internet, still sells copies of Wordstar 4.  I am not
> sure whether that includes a user manual or equivalent documentation, but
> Trio is pretty good at answering enquiries.  Google should find TRIO for
> you pretty easily.
> I did not get my copy of Wordstar 4 at Trio, as I found a copy complete
> with manual at Value Village a few years ago.
>
> Brian Murphy
> BCMURPHY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>                   Arachne at FreeLists
> -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --
>
>

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