[arachne] Re: WORDSTAR 4 AND OTHER DOS EDITORS

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Greg Mayman said:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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> On Tue, 27 May 2008 17:09:03 -0400 (EDT), ewalt@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> Was that the TRS-80 floppy that held only about 35k?


Nope. It was whatever used to fit into the PCjr. There were two floppy
drives and a "cartridge" slot. BASIC came on a cartridge and so did
various games.

I used DOS 2.11, which you loaded from a floppy and then took out and
put in the working disc for "Super Writer". Worked great. It came in a
shoe box of floppies that came with the PCjr from a yard sale. My son
Luke, who was maybe six or seven at the time, taught himself to program
in BASIC by reading the manual. In July he's going to work for
Hewlett Packard writing firmware for their server division. He barely
remembers the PCjr. But that's where I came into computers. I thought
it would be good for the kids. And I guess it was.

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