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Re: [LUG] OT: Windows XP

 

Not forgetting dear old LocoScript on Amstrad 'Joyces' (on CPM) - used in 
offices where I worked c. 1984. 

Rod 


On Monday 17 February 2014 13:35:53 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.


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