From: shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com   
      
   On 24/05/2024 12:46 am, Yazoo wrote:   
   > On Thu, 23 May 2024 12:30:47 +1200, ~misfit~   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > ...   
   >   
   >> * I don't remember exactly when but it was quite a bit before Windows 95   
   was released (which I   
   >> bought on release day - for my ostensibly 'business computer' - WordPerfect   
   FTW!!!).   
   >   
   > You've hit me with several reminders :)   
   >   
   > During the '95 I was authoring the book about Windows 95 (codename   
   > Chicago anyone?), so I've got all early versions of Windows (early   
   > beta, release candidate 1, final beta, ...). And of course I bought   
   > the final product on release day (24 August 1995).   
      
   I'm in the process of 'minimising clutter' (as I rent and will have to move   
   soon) so have recently   
   got rid of my (first day) release version of Windows 95, as well as Sp 1 and   
   SP 2 disks etc...   
      
   > And Word Perfect! My dear god! I'd been using it since DOS days (late   
   > eighties). 5.1 for DOS was really perfect, I probably produced tons of   
   > content with it! I used 5.2 for Windows, but not for a long, because   
   > there was a problem with printing in Windows (Microsoft to be blamed   
   > for this mess), so I switched to MS Word 2.0 for Windows).   
   > Do you remember "reveal codes". What a feature! Full control of   
   > document, formats, special codes, everything.   
   >   
   > What a journey down the memory lane!   
      
   Indeed! I originally had 5.1 for DOS then, after the hit they took after the   
   release of 5.2 and the   
   issues, prices dropped. When I 'upgraded' I got a good deal (~NZ$650) on   
   PerfectOffice 3.0 which   
   contained WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows (3.11 at the time for me). Initially it   
   was on a large number   
   of floppies but after a HDD crash, when I went to reinstall one disc was   
   corrupt. I managed to talk   
   the vendor into giving me the Novell version on CD as a replacement so I could   
   continue to use it.   
   (I think I just threw that out last month also. :-/)   
      
   Not long after that I did my back in and lost my business so had no need for   
   the office suite. I   
   used Wordpad for basic stuff until migrating to LibreOffice / OpenOffice etc.   
      
   > Thank you for this.   
      
   :)   
   --   
   Shaun.   
      
   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy   
   little classification   
   in the DSM"   
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