Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76
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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:
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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:
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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 Computer Museum Highlights -----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:
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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
Computer Museum Highlights
-----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:
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I have a boss (RIP) that used word perfect and would only put one document per floppy and labeled the floppy the document. This was well before we had network folders. He had quite the collection of floppys that he relied upon to keep service operation procedures on. My brother was a huge word perfect fan. He wrote all his medical lab procedures in Word Perfect and would not go to Word until he has no-choice and didn't want to buy newer copies, by which time he was retired and then use Word which came with office and still does nothing but complain how it is not as nice as word perfect. Me, I was always a WordStar fan and then a Word fan. I really like how a lot of the key combinations that I learned in Wordstar are still used today. My muscle memory did not have to be re-learned. I don't know if WS invented those key combos or if they were just in common use by then. Things like this are so easy today, but there is a charm returning to the period (and pain) we went through in the 80's and in to the 90's. I can remember in the 90s switching to Microsoft Publisher to create my service documents when Word could not handle very large documents. I really did like Publisher (I guess it is no longer around or needed?). Anywho, that drifted a bit. Happy 4th of July everyone! Dave -----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> On Behalf Of Benjamin Krein via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 6:25 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Benjamin Krein <superbenk@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] [EXTERNAL] Re: Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76 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
Computer Museum Highlights
-----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_as in_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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:
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I wonder what word processing program they used for his obituary. It might be nice to port to WordPerfect 5 and frame it for the museum with a photo or something. Print on a daisywheel printer or IBM proprinter On Wed, Jul 3, 2024, 1:10 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:
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We have our own internal app. Pretty much everyone uses it. Otherwise you are copying/pasting from a word processor to this. On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 1:32 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I wonder what word processing program they used for his obituary. It might be nice to port to WordPerfect 5 and frame it for the museum with a photo or something. Print on a daisywheel printer or IBM proprinter
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