DOS 1.0

From: Dennis Eldridge <bones_at_northrock.bm>
Date: Mon Jan 13 14:17:00 2003

I do indeed remember those manuals - those sturdy binders which let you know
these systems meant business. There were never enough of the binders
available in the IBM PC dealership I worked in. And lest we forget: the
infamous "This page intentionally left blank" page. What's up with that??

I do also memember Wordstar and it's arcane command sequences. Those
commands persisted though, through a number of ordinary text editors for
programmers & such.

Speaking of infantile and utterly bizarre, does anyone remember that abysmal
IBM attempt at a word processor, the name of which escapes me at the moment.
I think it was vaguely based on their mainframe product, typical of IBM at
the time. It's command set was last seen wandering about in their "e"
editor in PC DOS 6.xx. It's an amazingly powerful editor in a lot of ways,
loads of options and features if you can figure them out. But I'll be
danged if I can get the thing to insert a new line...


Cheers,

Dennis
Received on Mon Jan 13 2003 - 14:17:00 GMT