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On 17/02/2014 13:35, Mark Evans wrote: > On 16/02/14 22:39, Eion MacDonald wrote: >> >> >> On 16/02/2014 22:28, Mark Evans wrote: >>> What's a "lifetime corporate Windows user" anyway? It simply hasn't >>> been around long enough for people near retirement to have been >>> using it for their entire working life >> >> "Their lifetime since using computers" = "lifetime corporate Windows >> user" for the average office s/he. >> Only accounts folk had experience of computers before 'personal >> computers' on each desk. > > However the first "office applications" were the likes of Wordperfect, > Wordstar, Visicalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Multiplan (the only Microsoft product). > > The IBM PC (with MSDOS) wasn't the first "business PC" either. > > Even MacWrite preceded MS Word. My beloved My beloved Visicalc and Lotus 1-2-3! Yes all the accounts staff used these on various machines, and we even had many "mac" earlies as personal users before we had windows machines and users, but Marketing pressure moved the 'usual user' to MS Office as its try version was tied into loading MS OS. The first Windows machine I came across was in 'Eastern Bloc, in a secure office behind armed guard, at that time a forbidden export to USSR! Such are early memories. -- regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq