Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, Daniel Hückmann wrote: You can stream WP 6 for DOS on the Internet Archive. If WP will run on DOS emulators and windows virtual machines I wonder if the linux version would still run. I used it through December 1999; it failed on January 1, 2000; I no longer remember how.

Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

You can stream WP 6 for DOS on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/msdos_wordperfect6 On Mon, Jul 8, 2024, 22:07 Dick Steffens wrote: > On 7/8/24 11:41, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > I don't think you needed a printer driver for WP for DOS only WP for > Windows. > > > > For the DOS

Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

On 7/8/24 11:41, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I don't think you needed a printer driver for WP for DOS only WP for Windows. For the DOS version you just needed an HP printer and select Laserjet Plus or whatever on a parallel port from the DOS version. If you are running it under 16 bit compatibilit

Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

osbox emulator under win10. Ted -Original Message- From: PLUG On Behalf Of Dick Steffens Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2024 3:53 PM To: plug@lists.pdxlinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect? On 7/6/24 14:34, Rich Shepard wrote: > I started using Satellite Software'

Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

On Sat, 6 Jul 2024, Dick Steffens wrote: WP was the best word processor. I loved the feature that showed "reveal codes". I still have a copy on my Win 2K virtual machine, but I don't have a printer driver for it. The reveal-codes feature was among my favorites. If you botched some bit of for

Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

Talking about WP brings back memories of working in the Scientific Computing Center at Tektronix in the late 80's. Tektronix was not a M$ house so those folks with PC's probably used WP (or whatever word processing worked on Banyan). In the SCC we were 100% UNIX, what documentation we wrote was p

Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

On 7/6/24 14:34, Rich Shepard wrote: I started using Satellite Software's WordPerfect, CalcPerfect, and Draw in 1984 and visited their Orem, UT campus in 1985. Used and taugh others to use these products and used the linux version until 2000 when it died. The author of WordPerfect, Bruce Basti

[PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

I started using Satellite Software's WordPerfect, CalcPerfect, and Draw in 1984 and visited their Orem, UT campus in 1985. Used and taugh others to use these products and used the linux version until 2000 when it died. The author of WordPerfect, Bruce Bastien, just died