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I hope Google got that translation right.
It has been a year and a half since the tragic collapse.
Around two and a half decades ago, in the days when 386 based computers were considered cutting-edge here, I had first learnt about MS-DOS, WordStar, Lotus 1-2-3 and dBase-IV in evening sessions at the institute that used to operate from these premises.
Every time I pass this heap of rubble, I'm reminded of the aroma of tea that would signal the mid-session tea break.
That was a long 30 years back in 1987. After four years of vigorous training in Western Music (Guitar) at Tharanga Nissari School of Music, the president of the school, K. J. Yesudas honours Leo with the Diploma in Music. It was a great honour to receive the award from the one who knows the value of dedication and perseverance.
While all others were from Carnatic and Hindustani Music Department, I was the only one graduated from the Western Music Department in 1987, many others either dropped out or repeated. This makes me the favourite student of the principal, a violin maestro, Mr M.J. Michael but he also left the school the same year since his demand to start Trinity College's courses was denied.
That graduation at the VJT Hall was the last ceremony I attended in India before migrated to Canada. I cherish that memory more than many awards that I received during my teaching career in New York City and the Dual Citizenship Ceremonies in Canada and the US. because that is not just for anyone.
Be it a legend or not, I do not bow down to another man, then or now, other than God the Almighty. For that character, I may pay a price in this world but I have a greater reward in heaven.
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Those were the times of DOS, Wordstar, Lotus, dbase, Basic, COBOL, and making TV after a Keltrol Course.
(What were you doing at that time, probably many of you were not even born?) Leoba Puthenthope
I use this for an Avatar on websites. Nikon SP, introduced in 1957- year I was born. Nikkor and Zeiss lenses, and my computer running DOS, Wordstar, working on code written in Assembly Language. I have been writing code for 50 years- and still love it.
Courier 12 element for the IBM Selectric II typewriter.
For those Redditors who say WordPerfect and WordStar were before Word, so was a lot of other stuff. I have used WordPerfect for years (since 5.1) and still do. But would this have been so popular without using Word in the title? Sadly, Word is the current word processing standard.
After seeing parts of ENIAC at the Smithsonian eight years ago, I ran into more parts of it at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
The main thing that struck me there was how much of our technology was originally military-related. Heraclitus, who lived 2,500 years ago, must have been right, when he wrote: “Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ ἐλευθέρους.”
The Kaypro 1. There's something about the form and proportions of this computer that I've always absolutely loved. It's just so perfect. It's so trim and functional and nicely laid-out. It proves that beautiful things can be made just by bending sheet metal.
It runs CP/M -- an 8-bit OS that I have a lot of fondness for -- and it was mostly just a host organism for WordStar. The final piece of the Kaypro 1 Awrsomness argument: Arthur C. Clarke wrote on one.
When do you think this was made? Take a guess. It's a Z80-based CP/M machine, so it must have predated Windows and probably even DOS. The industrial design clearly wasn't influenced by the Mac, which was released in 1984. Also, as the Kaypro 1, you can guess that it was the first model that Kaypro made.
Correct! 1986. The Kaypro 1 was the about the 10th model the company released, coming out 4 years after the Kaypro 2, their first computer, which was followed immediately by the Kaypro 10.
I am not making any of this up.
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator, Philadelphia 1946. Now owned by Smithsonian, though the largest part still resides where it was built.
Originally a Kodachrome 64 slide.
My grandad's old computer setup.
How many grandparents do you know that used computers? In 2010, maybe some. In 1995? Not many. But he'd been using computers since the 1940s, so of course he had one in the 1990s.
I enhanced the computer screen to try to see what grandad was doing. Some DOS-based menu program here. I remember he used WordStar for text, which is a pain when trying to view those files nowadays.
James.
laying.
American flags, Irith the dog, books, computer, desk, keyboard, light, monitor, picture, printer, switchbox.
DOS. from Dad.
Nanny and Grandad's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
1993.
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James Bernard L, my grandfather (dad's dad). Born 2/18/1922 in Fairmont, WV. Died 12/18/2001 in Arlington, VA.
Son of James and Minnie
Husband of Maria Clara ("Ronnie")
Father of Victor (dad)
Brother of Arnold Ray, Lena May and Charles
James Bernard L was a long-serving member of the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, and its Association. He joined the National Guard in 1936, then the 16th Infantry in 1940 at Fort Jay, New York. In the Allied landings in Africa in November, 1942, he was the Regimental Sergeant Major. He fought in Sicily and later, in the Normandy Invasion, as a Warrant Officer under General Omar Bradley. He continued with the 16th Infantry through France, the Battle of the Bulge, Germany and Czechoslovakia.
After the war, he served at Fort Knox, Kentucky, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, Ft. Sam Houstin in San Antonio, TX, and the Adjutant Generals School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, where he retired in 1960 as a CWO-4.
James then became one of the strongest supporters of the Regimental Association, writing many articles and booklets produced by the Association, and was a contributor, editor, and participant in the production of the recent volume of the regiment's history, "Blood and Sacrifice."
James was also an avid flag collector and member of NAVA, and a longtime philatelist.
Warren Ellis asks us to show what is in our bags, and we comply.
How did it come to this?
Community College course catalog
Portable Umbrella, in case.
Two empty ziploc bags.
Ziplock bag with disposable razor, lip balm, pain killers and allergy meds, wet-naps, breath mints.
Black nylon . . . I'm not sure. I'ts like a little wallet, with a belt clip. Maybe it is for business cards. I don't have business cards. I'm getting rid of it.
Not shown above: Aiptek camera and case.
Postcard from my mother, postmarked 2003.
Disposable wrist strap for working on electronics.
Sample of Colgate toothpaste, opened.
Eyeglass repair kit from an insurance company.
Foil packet with Glide dental floss sample.
Aquafresh toothpaste sample.
Reciept from Stark Vacuums from two years ago.
Portfolio with looseleaf pads with random doodles and notes, dried up label stock, rental car map of Colorado.
Scientific calculator.
Dental floss sample.
Scrap of note paper with notes on a automated haunted house I was going to build.
Luggage tag.
Post-It with new work phone number.
Year-old coupon from Micheal's hobby and craft shop.
Multi-head screwdriver.
Handle from broken photo tripod.
"Declaration for Dangerous Goods" for model rocket order, dated 12-08-2008
Safeway grocery receipt, too faded to read date
Notice of change in blackout period for retirement plan for my last employer.
Cable tie.
Yellow note pad. It has the titles of a dozen graphic novels written on it, including Reload by Warren Ellis.
Empty "Memo Book" that looks positively antique. Cover price fifteen cents.
Note paper with the address of my widowed uncle; I never sent the card. He's since moved and remarried.
Another expired Micheal's craft coupon.
Ziploc bag with screws and "mollies."
Plastic dispenser for Post-It bookmark stickers.
Coffee stirrer, wooden. Two of them.
Loose wet-nap.
Ethernet loopback plug.
Adaptor to use stereo mini-plug earphones with two-plug airplane seat jacks.
Pens, pencils of no distinction.
Pocket dictionary.
Two packets of tissues
Small stapler
Two notepads from charities.
A piece of what appears to be jerky. Very, very old jerky.
Rubber bands.
Aluminum fork and spoon.
Eyeglass cleaning cloth.
Small tape measure.
Adaptor to allow two-prong airplane headsets with stereo mini-plug equipment. Really.
Plastic business card holder from the 1989 American Itnernational Toy Fair.
Old drinking straw.
Bits of a plastic knife.
Yellow plastic ruler.
Tiny spiral-bound book, "Mini-Manual for WordStar," copyright 1985.
Scrap of coarse sand paper.
Loose screw with "star" head.
Several twist-ties.
Loose zipper closure ring for bag.
Two years ago, Maximiliano Torres was a computer novice. But now he's productively using WordStar, Lotus 1-2-3, PC-File and other programs to help him manage St. Anthony's Padua Dining Room, a nonprofit agency that serves more than 600 meals a day to low-income and homeless residents in the San Francisco Bay Area.
There is nothing unusual about using a PC to manage such an enterprise. But what is special is the relationship between Torres and Wiley Simonds, a US Sprint engineer who volunteers several hours a week helping Torres refine his computer skills.
Simonds claims that he gets more out of the relationship than Torres. "It's very satisfying," Simonds says, "to pass knowledge over to someone who can put it to good use." Torres, who credits Simonds with a great deal of patience, says his assistance has been instrumental in "making the dining room a more efficient operation."
Simonds and Torres were brought together by the CompuMentor Project, a San Francisco-based organization that during the past year helped match nearly 300 agencies with about 400 "mentors" like Simonds.
CompuMentor makes matches only in the San Francisco Bay Area but has affiliate organizations in several other cities, including Washington, Chicago, Seattle, New York, Pittsburgh and Boston.
There are no affiliates in Los Angeles. However, Computer Help and Information Program offers computer training and management assistance for Southern California nonprofit groups. CHIP, according to Executive Director Patty Oertel, is exploring whether to launch its own mentoring program. For information, call (213) 623-7080.
CompuMentor was founded in 1986 by former journalist Daniel Ben-Horin. Ben-Horin is proud of the match between Simonds and Torres, but he also points to several other groups that have benefited from access to mentors.
For example, the Chinese Community Housing Corp. used the services of a mentor to help create a database of its San Francisco Chinatown property. The database was put to immediate use after the October, 1989, earthquake, helping the agency target properties that needed immediate assistance.
Mentors can even be lifesavers. A CompuMentor volunteer helped the San Francisco Suicide Prevention Center computerize its information database, reducing its emergency response time from minutes to seconds.
CompuMentor and some of the agencies it serves receive donations of cash, software and equipment from a variety of computer companies, including Hewlett-Packard, US Robotics, Software Ventures and Apple Computer.
Fred Silverman, Apple's manager of community affairs, praises CompuMentor as "a perfect marriage of technology and volunteerism." Supporting nonprofit organizations, Silverman says, is Apple's way of "putting the tools of change into the hands of the agents of change."
CompuMentor is also helping organizations communicate with each other so that they can share resources and collaborate. Working with a variety of hardware companies, software firms and on-line services, the group has helped nonprofit organizations obtain modems, communications software and access to on-line information services.
A growing number of the organizations supported by CompuMentor, according to Ben-Horin, are using on-line services to share information and resources with other nonprofit groups across the country.
A lot of nonprofit groups, according to Ben-Horin, rely on HandsNet, a Santa Cruz-based on-line service that connects more than 1,200 human service organizations throughout the United States.
HandsNet, which requires a modem and special communications software, provides news and information on hunger, homelessness, housing, community development, health care, legal services and other issues that affect its subscribers' low-income constituencies.
Organizations use HandsNet to learn about government grants, to conduct collaborative projects and to provide information to various government agencies.
The California Department of Human Services, for example, uses HandsNet to collect information from food banks throughout the state. HandsNet subscribers pay a $25-per-month service fee plus an hourly connect fee. A $100 initiation fee includes the required access software for either the Macintosh or IBM PC. The service can be reached at (408) 427-0808.
On-line services such as HandsNet can do a great deal to break down the isolation so often experienced by staff and volunteers in community-based nonprofit groups. But access to such services requires more than a modem and a password, especially for those nonprofit groups whose staff spend an inordinately high percentage of their time keeping up with the pressing demands of their low-income constituencies.
That's where CompuMentor comes in. Through its technically savvy mentors, the group provides training and encouragement as well as a certain amount of vision, helping nonprofits use technology to better serve their communities.
CompuMentor will send an information packet to anyone thinking about starting their own group. Write to CompuMentor at 89 Stillman St., San Francisco, Calif. 94107. Phone: (415) 512-7784.
Wordstar, The Grandfather of Word Processors….
My first personal computer was a Sanyo model 1150, CP/M machine. It came with a word processing program on several 5 1/4 inch disks named WordStar.
WordStar was manufactured by MicroPro and was part of a suite of programs that also included database and spreadsheet programs. WordStar was released in 1979 and was the most powerful word processing software of its day.
I remember the formatting commands of WordStar required as if it were yesterday: Control b ^B for bold, Control s ^S for underline. If you forgot to properly pair up the control codes, your document ended up a mess.
Here is a short sentence with boldface and underline code: ^B^SThe Great Gatsby.^S^B
WordStar was very confusing and difficult to learn. It was a powerful tool during an era when most of us were just being introduced to word processing. Mastering these wonders of modern technology required a new mindset. There was a major learning curve because using a personal computer was very cutting edge in the early 1980’s.
Though it wasn't easy, once you mastered the control key system all other word processors seemed simple. I am writing this description with Microsoft Word on my Mac and I have been using Word and Apple Pages for many years. Today, Microsoft Word is the industry leader. However, WordStar was the leader back then.
Although I use Word, I still have a directory on my Windows based computer (in the closet) for my old WordStar program. I never boot it up, but keep it for old-times sake. As a closing note on this subject, do you remember how cool the first spelling checkers were? The spell checker in WordStar was SpellStar. Back in the early days MicroPro’s suite of software programs retailed for about $500.00.
Wordstar, The Grandfather of Word Processors….
My first personal computer was a Sanyo model 1150, CP/M machine. It came with a word processing program on several 5 1/4 inch disks named WordStar.
WordStar was manufactured by MicroPro and was part of a suite of programs that also included database and spreadsheet programs. WordStar was released in 1979 and was the most powerful word processing software of its day.
I remember the formatting commands of WordStar required as if it were yesterday: Control b ^B for bold, Control s ^S for underline. If you forgot to properly pair up the control codes, your document ended up a mess.
Here is a short sentence with boldface and underline code: ^B^SThe Great Gatsby.^S^B
WordStar was very confusing and difficult to learn. It was a powerful tool during an era when most of us were just being introduced to word processing. Mastering these wonders of modern technology required a new mindset. There was a major learning curve because using a personal computer was very cutting edge in the early 1980’s.
Though it wasn't easy, once you mastered the control key system all other word processors seemed simple. I am writing this description with Microsoft Word on my Mac and I have been using Word for many years. Today, it is the industry leader. However, WordStar was the leader back then.
Although I use Word, I still have a directory on my Windows based computer (in the closet) for my old WordStar program. I never boot it up, but keep it for old-times sake. As a closing note on this subject, do you remember how cool the first spelling checkers were? The spell checker in WordStar was SpellStar. Back in the early days MicroPro’s suite of software programs retailed for about $500.00.
This image is of the back side of a flyer I created during the early days of computers. My plan was to teach newbies how to use Wordstar. I had a few students sign up.
A set of equations was included in the WordStar file illustrated in Figures 32, 33 and 34. When rendered in all other tested environments including Microsoft Word 5.5 for MS-DOS (Figure 33) and LibreOffice Writer 3.3.0 (Figure 34) the meaning or purpose of the numbers above the equation in the examples was not apparent. When rendered in the control WordStar version 7 environment it becomes clear that the numbers above the equation in the examples are intended to be interpreted as exponents (or “powers” e.g “x²”). This meaning was presumably captured in the control environment by the creator utilizing the font spacing and text spacing functionality to position the exponents above the relevant positions of the equation on the line below.
Originally from Archives New Zealand: archives.govt.nz/resources/information-management-researc...
A set of equations was included in the WordStar file illustrated in Figures 32, 33 and 34. When rendered in all other tested environments including Microsoft Word 5.5 for MS-DOS (Figure 33) and LibreOffice Writer 3.3.0 (Figure 34) the meaning or purpose of the numbers above the equation in the examples was not apparent. When rendered in the control WordStar version 7 environment it becomes clear that the numbers above the equation in the examples are intended to be interpreted as exponents (or “powers” e.g “x²”). This meaning was presumably captured in the control environment by the creator utilizing the font spacing and text spacing functionality to position the exponents above the relevant positions of the equation on the line below.
Originally from Archives New Zealand: archives.govt.nz/resources/information-management-researc...
A set of equations was included in the WordStar file illustrated in Figures 32, 33 and 34. When rendered in all other tested environments including Microsoft Word 5.5 for MS-DOS (Figure 33) and LibreOffice Writer 3.3.0 (Figure 34) the meaning or purpose of the numbers above the equation in the examples was not apparent. When rendered in the control WordStar version 7 environment it becomes clear that the numbers above the equation in the examples are intended to be interpreted as exponents (or “powers” e.g “x²”). This meaning was presumably captured in the control environment by the creator utilizing the font spacing and text spacing functionality to position the exponents above the relevant positions of the equation on the line below.
Originally from Archives New Zealand: archives.govt.nz/resources/information-management-researc...
There was a time before Windows when software was installed using dos-based scripts. This is a flowchart of the first "Wizard" installation program (actually the 1.5 version of it) for MicroPro's Wordstar "Easy" program. It was written using IBM's Top View windowing system. This type of installation became standard shortly afterwards on the early versions of Microsoft Windows.
My first computer was a Sanyo MBC-1150 (on the right). It had two 5 1/4 floppy drives and ran the CP/M operating system. I paid about $3500 for it. It came with Wordstar, a spreasheet and database program.
I never used the database or spreadsheet. I was only interested in learning how to use Wordstar so I could put away my typewriter. Learning Wordstar was quite a task and it took a while.
However, I taught myself the program and the first article I ever had published was completed with Wordstar.
The MBC-1100 and MBC-1150 were two 8-bit machines intended for business market. There was no difference between the 1100 and 1150 models except that they left the factory with 1 or 2 drives installed. Eventually, the Sanyo was put aside for a Tandy 1000, later, an Apple IIc and eventually a Gateway Computer and finally a Mac.
My Kaypro 1 running Wordstar.
The Kaypro 1 was the last cp/m portable (actually the last new portable period) released by Kaypro.
In 1985 Kaypro had released the 16 and 16/2 which were MSDOS machines, the following year it seems Kaypro axed all of the cp/m series and introduced the 1 as their sole cp/m offering.
A lot of websites claim the 1 to basically be a Kaypro 2x with vertical drives and no modem. Actually it's much more like a Kaypro 10 without a hard drive than it is a 2x. The mainboard is not the universal board that the 2x shared with the 4 and the new2. The mainboard in the 1 is actually basically like the one used in the 10. Why Kaypro did this I do not know. Excess kaypro 10 inventory? In any event the vertical drives and the location of the power led, and ports and jacks are like those of the 10, and not of the 2x.
In seems the 1 was probably around until Kaypro got rid of all their 8 bit parts. It was certainly available in 1986 and 1987, and may have carried into 1988. Probably the kaypro 1 was the last cp/m computer offered by any major company. Cp/m was already dead in the water by 1985, in 1987 it would have been an anachronism.
I'm thirteen years old here, probably typing up a book report using Wordstar. A World Book encyclopaedia is open on the floor. I had to keep the cover off the Okidata printer because I was constantly having to realign the paper. The old folding chair was so uncomfortable I had to sit on a folded pillow from my bed.
- now & then: a page from the past... a page of the 85-86 computers IT scrapbook done after being amazed by the machines I gotta "play" about at my school's computer club. It got me to learn more by going to the trade shows etc. Oh wordstar ! Who is still using that?! #apple #retro #advertisement #80s #wordstar #vintage
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eviltofu: I had a Uni teacher who was using wordstar on CP/M. This was the OS before DOS.
The Osborne Computer Corporation (OCC) was founded by Adam Osborne in 1980 based on a product of not just personal computers but portable computers. Adam Osborne asked Lee Felsenstein to develop his portable computer with the result being the Osborne 1.
The Osborne 1 featured a 5 inch (127 mm) 52-column display, two floppy-disk drives, a Z80 microprocessor, 64k of RAM, and could fit under an airplane seat. It could survive being accidentally dropped and included a bundled software package that included the CP/M operating system, the BASIC programming language, the WordStar word processing package, and the SuperCalc spreadsheet program.
The package included $2000 worth of retail software alone, but the Osborne 1 personal computer with everything included shipped for a mere $1795 in 1981. It was the $1795 price tag that set market expectations for bundled hardware and software packages for several years to come. The peak sales per month for Osborne 1 personal computers over the course of the product lifetime was 10,000 units, despite the initial business plan for the computer predicting a total of only 10,000 units sold over the entire product lifecycle. Osborne had difficulty meeting demand, and as production increased, quality control became more and more of an issue
Rebound copy of the MDF.
WordStar instruction manuals.
285 Scott St, Blenheim, Sep 1987.
Photo: Gary Danvers
Thai keyboard. Typewriter made in Korea by Dong Ah Precision Co. Ltd. Plastic body is rather flimsy, but it works perfectly. Even if I could find a serial number it would be useless, as there seems to be no listing for this anywhere. Looks like it may have been made in the 1980s.
Anyone have any information?
UPDATE: I found this machine on Will Davis's Portable Typewriter Reference Site. It is derived from the Silver-Reed 500 and was sold under the name "Marathon" and as the Reader's Digest 1000 (presumably without the Thai keyboard).
Folletos de WordStar 5 y 6 (circa 1987/1988) distribuidos en Argentina por PC Land.
WordStar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar y www.wordstar.org/
Wordperfect and Wordstar were the word processor programs of the day.
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WordPerfect for DOS.
Founded 1979; 44 years ago in Orem, Utah. Founder: Bruce Bastian and Alan C. Ashton
Defunct1 994; 29 years ago
Fate: Sold to Novell; most assets in turn sold to Corel in 1996.
WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Corel, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the dominant player in the word processor market, displacing the prior market leader WordStar.
Wordstar, The Grandfather of Word Processors….
My first personal computer was a Sanyo model 1150, CP/M machine. It came with a word processing program on several 5 1/4 inch disks named WordStar.
WordStar was manufactured by MicroPro and was part of a suite of programs that also included database and spreadsheet programs. WordStar was released in 1979 and was the most powerful word processing software of its day.
I remember the formatting commands of WordStar required as if it were yesterday: Control b ^B for bold, Control s ^S for underline. If you forgot to properly pair up the control codes, your document ended up a mess.
Here is a short sentence with boldface and underline code: ^B^SThe Great Gatsby.^S^B
WordStar was very confusing and difficult to learn. It was a powerful tool during an era when most of us were just being introduced to word processing. Mastering these wonders of modern technology required a new mindset. There was a major learning curve because using a personal computer was very cutting edge in the early 1980’s.
Though it wasn't easy, once you mastered the control key system all other word processors seemed simple. I am writing this description with Microsoft Word on my Mac and I have been using Word for many years. Today, it is the industry leader. However, WordStar was the leader back then.
Although I use Word, I still have a directory on my Windows based computer (in the closet) for my old WordStar program. I never boot it up, but keep it for old-times sake. As a closing note on this subject, do you remember how cool the first spelling checkers were? The spell checker in WordStar was SpellStar. Back in the early days MicroPro’s suite of software programs retailed for about $500.00.
This image is of a sales flyer I created during the early days of computers. My plan was to teach newbies how to use Wordstar. I had a few students sign up. Notice how we used the term "Microcomputer" back in those days. Today, we call it a personal computer, or PC for short. Howard Libin created the flyer for me.
C.W.S is a Chinese wordstar software created for CEC-I and Apple II, it's supported the Chinese char-set ROM on CEC-I to get best speed, and there are some special table and Chinese functions.
Early Theta-G production materials were done in MacWrite and in this, the first succesful word processor for the IBM PC.
Control Room as seen from the connected managers office. Notice the IBM computer monitor, if I remember correctly it was probably an 8086 running DOS. It was my first introduction to computers. We had to input meter readings everynight at 10pm. These were entered into a Wordstar Spreadsheet. It's where I taught myself to become computer literate.
An interesting historical internal memo at Apple Computer. By the time this memo was written, I was using WordStar on a CP/M Sanyo computer.
"Ningún otro programa pone tanto poder y eficiencia bajo las yemas de sus dedos"
Folletos de WordStar 5 y 6 (circa 1987/1988) distribuidos en Argentina por PC Land.
WordStar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar y www.wordstar.org/
"Ahora aún más completo y fácil de aprender"
Folletos de WordStar 5 y 6 (circa 1987/1988) distribuidos en Argentina por PC Land.
WordStar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar y www.wordstar.org/