(March 17, 2022 at 11:18 am)Astreja Wrote:(March 17, 2022 at 9:23 am)Angrboda Wrote: 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.
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I had nearly forgotten about WP and Lotus.
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