Re(2): OK, wreckers. It's 'fess up time!

Now that I think of it, I also recall in 1969 agonizing whether to blow $300 on one of the first LED watches. Remember the ones with the red faces? (I finally didn't buy it and was I glad when the cheaper LCD models came out.) But the first LEDs were so chunky and heavy. I knew one guy who had one and after six months his watch arm seemed disproportionately larger than the other.

FoggyTown

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:26:25 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@pmug.org (Glenna Rose) calmly ranted:

Don't forget the Zeke files (.exe), and config.sys/autoexec.bat (which the Marines at Camp Pendelton used to save in Word imPerfect format). Thank you, Word Perfect, for helping me to make a lot of money by fixing computer bootup problems created by your program. ;)

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Yeah. Stop making us feel old, or I'll .exe you with a .bat

Pro'ly not from being heavy, but from all the extra swing action his arm was getting showing it off to everybody. "Do I have the time you ask? Why, I'm so glad you asked!"

Hey now, I have very fond memories of using WordPerfect. It was a darn sight better than Microsloth Word. At least when something got screwed up in the format with WordPerfect, I could reveal *all* codes and find out what was going wrong, then delete that code -- unlike Word, that hides everything in the stupid paragraph end and doesn't let you see what's going on.

Yup. I still have a keyboard around here with one of those on it. It's a keyboard I once traded a certificate for a free dozen of roses for. I needed a keyboard, and I didn't have a girlfriend. I had a friend with a girlfriend, who worked in a computer store. Perfect.

Ah, memories.

Word 2003 is not as good a word processor as AmiPro for Win 3.0. Word has more useless features, and what it does with image positioning is like the Cr**sman router random-height adjustment, but Ami was much better.

Too bad Ami didn't succeed commercially. Lotus & IBM failed...

-- Mark

Ahh, I remember those. Museum pieces, eh?

-- Mark

LOL! What a great analogy!

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 04:11:20 -0500, Silvan calmly ranted:

I'll use anything and still tell you that WP was bad; as bad as MS Word. I went with AmiPro when it came out and still use it (v3) for occasional docs.

To troubleshoot WP, I'd rather use WP. But to create a document, I'd much rather use Edlin than WP. And I still hand-code websites and check out flaky emails using Note Tab Pro. Text editors are happenin'.

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Nice...

At a prior job I needed to write the user documentation for a software package we'd finished. I was annoyed at the task and fed up with Word and (somehow) made the company get me PageMaker. (*) In WW terms this was kinda like demanding and receiving a 12" table saw for cutting the ends off a half-dozen tuba-fors. ;-) It sure was nice to have the screen shots stay

-- Mark

(*) I came down with a case of PM(W)S -- Pre Microsoft (Word) Syndrome.