DOS 1.0

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Mon Jan 13 19:20:01 2003

At 04:19 PM 1/13/03 -0400, you wrote:
>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.

   Sounds like you're thinking of DisplayWrite.

   Joe
Received on Mon Jan 13 2003 - 19:20:01 GMT