On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 9:23:48 AM UTC-7, Janet Wilder wrote:
> On 12/3/2014 8:17 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2014-12-03 8:50 AM, Pete C. wrote:
> >
> >>> I looked at a usb drive lying on the desk one day and realised it had
> >>> more memory than the big old Commodore had
> >>
> >> I look at my Moto X smartphone and compare it's 32GB to my old Vic20's
> >> 16KB
> >>
> >
> >
> > My first computer was a COCO II (or was it III?) by Radio Crap. It was
> > 128K memory. It was a good place to start because everything was up from
> > there. It was about 1990 that I got an XT. IIRC, the whole system was
> > about $2400 at the time. I was the envy of the local computer geeks with
> > a 600 baud modem and a huge 20meg hard drive. A huge part of the cost
> > was the software, a couple hundred bucks each for DOS and for Word Perfect.
>
> I am so missing Word Perfect. I have to deal with this cockamamie
> Microsoft Word because of my "job" editing manuscripts.
>
> Why can't Microsoft put a "reveal codes" feature in their program. How
> does one build a macro in MS Word?
>
> --
> From somewhere very deep in the heart of Texas

Corel`s WordPerfect is still available...I have had a copy for years but don`t have the latest one. Far superior to Word and always was. My version 12 is old but it still is great and I can read Word files on it as well.

LibreOffice Writer or OpenOffice Writer get used most often as they are quite versatile when reading documents sent to me from my friends and relatives.

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