RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 17, 2022 at 11:18 am
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2022 at 11:19 am by Astreja.)
(March 17, 2022 at 9:23 am)Angrboda Wrote:(March 17, 2022 at 1:36 am)Astreja Wrote: Learned how to use the equation editor in Microsoft Word. (I'm taking a math course online and want to make my homework look nice.)
I worked in the document department of a biomedical firm in the late 80s. We had Wordstar. We composed the formulas used in manufacturing the product with a combination of ascii characters, sub and superscripting, and backspacing over previous marks. You don't know how good you have it.
Oh, I know -- I have 33 years' experience with various incarnations of M$ Word, plus some WeirdPerfect, and before that I used a Radio Shack Color Computer with a cobbled-together disk controller and a serial interface to a wide-carriage DECwriter that someone had evicted from their office. And EDLIN, and COPY CON. And a teletype running 55 baud. Not quite "editing the inodes by hand with a magnet" stuff, but near as darnit.
