Thank you for sharing the book! I’ll definitely look forward to reading that. I kind of want to go do some writing now on one of my older systems. I never really used WordPerfect back in the day & it always intimidated me. Maybe I’ll have to see what I was missing. Benjamin Krein Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 3, 2024, at 1:57 PM, Bob Roswell via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
A couple of Word Perfect notes. 1) Full text of the book is available https://wepeterson.com/almostperfect/ for free! 2) We are mentioned (ComputerLand Baltimore, our name before we were System Source) https://wepeterson.com/almostperfect/chapter4/ about 1/2 way down the page. I can give more details if people are interested. 3) I called Pete Peterson (book author) and suggested a feature for WordPerfect to help my (then girlfriend) wife with her master's thesis. (We made the playback of macros visible, so she could watch the entire editing process) We had all sorts of people writing papers using WordPerfect while recording the process using the macro feature, and she studied editing strategies. It eventually got her a job as an English professor at Goucher College
Bob Roswell broswell@syssrc.com 410-771-5544 ext 4336
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-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> On Behalf Of Devin Heitmueller via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 1:17 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Devin Heitmueller <devin.heitmueller@gmail.com> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76
For anyone interested in a history of WordPerfect, I read the following a few years back and it was pretty good (which for obvious reasons talks about Mr. Bastian at length):
Almost Perfect https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XKNWUE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_tit...
Devin
On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 1:09 PM Jeff S via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
The use of Alt-F3 in my early days of using WordPerfect taught me how to understand text markup before HTML became a thing... thus allowing me to quickly become familiar with HTML in its early days.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2024, 9:32 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
This is a free article from the times.
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