Slightly OT for those of us who started on Tandy Hardware

[Fairlight]

WordStar was a minor nightmare.  It's the only editor I can think of that
used more control keys than EMACS.  :)

I knew how to use all of them at one point.  If there was a word processor
on the market, I was trained on it.  Even Word/36 on System/36, and that's
really bloody obscure (and yet, I had a gig doing just that for a while).

Those days are gone.  Use it or lose it, and I haven't needed anything like
that in years.

But yeah, WordStar was...  I don't know many who -liked- WordStar.  It
wasn't as bad as some made out, but it was needlessly taxing on the human
memory.  EMACS is much the same, although I liked EMACS a lot when I was
using it.  My CLI is still EMACS bindings; I'll willingly use a modal CLI
over my dead body.

I still remember -actual- vi200 terminals.  BEEEEEEP.  BEEEEEEEEEP!

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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 09:46:29AM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> >I can go you one better...
> >
> >My best friend, bless him, back in our university days got into *nix
> >slightly later than I did.  He changed his password on his shell account to
> >^Skullz.  Then he wondered for a few days why his terminal froze up every
> >time he logged in.
> >
> >Think about it.  :)
> >
> >I could not help but laugh when he told me what he'd done.  It was
> >completely forgiveable, methinks!  He's never lived that down, even though
> >we have had parity for 20+ years.
> 
> The Tandy Scripsit word processing program used ctrl-S for
> something (search?), and when the Model 12 came out one of the
> function keys on the left of of the numeric keypad sent ctrl-S to
> make things "easier".  I don't know how many calls I got saying
> their computer stopped displaying.  I think WordStar also used
> ctrl-S and ctrl-Q for something, not knowing anything about
> serial communications protocols.
> 
> Of course the Microsoft people didn't know anything about
> networking or security, but that's another story.
> 
> Bill
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