Old Word Processors and Now

From: Mark Firestone <nedry_at_mail.bedlambells.com>
Date: Fri Jul 18 01:55:00 2003

Heh. That's cool. I was 12 when I was doing the shouting. Now I have a
12 year old daughter to shout at (:, or more recently, she has started to
shout at me... this is a bad sign.

I quit my "job before this one" as Technical Manager of a computer training
company, largely because I kept being pressed into to teaching things like
Windows NT 4 Admin at short notice. I mean, real short notice, no notes,
just my copy of "Inside Windows NT 4 Server"...

Take Care,

Mark

At 17:42 14/07/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Well Mark, I'm still teaching word processing and the short cuts are
>CTRL-S and CTRL-L and
>I mention it most every day. I can remember using an Applewiter-clone and
>the formatting commands
>haven't chnaged. Why do away with things that work and make sense even if
>students forget them!!!
>I try not to scream though. Not good for a teacher.
>
>Murray
>
> >
> > Message: 9
> > Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:00:20 +0100
> > To: cctech_at_classiccmp.org
> > From: Mark Firestone <nedry_at_mail.bedlambells.com>
> > Subject: Re: Old Word Processors
> > Reply-To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> >
> > I can still remember screaming at my father (I must have been 13 at time
> > time) "it's CTRL-S to save, and CTRL-L to load. How could they make it
> > simpler for you?" when he was trying to use Applewriter //e, a very nice,
> > full featured, non-WYSIWYG word processor. Good old . formatting commands.

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