<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>I also used to work for MKS, during 1995-1999. Software development in C, working on their Build Integrity product.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, at 4:04 PM, Ron Singh wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;">What I really like about your comment is the mention of MKS(Mortice Kern Systems). I worked with them providing hardware to an Alex, Randall, Ruth and Trevor. This was back in the early and mid-80s when MKS was doing their thing out of a house on Erb Street. <br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;">Ahh yeah, nostalgic for them days -- never got into WP as I was a Wordstar guy(CP/M on Ferguson Bigboard II and an Apples ][ with MS Z80 Softcard), but my wife was a speed demon on WP, especially v4.x. I will let her know about the WP deb so she can revisit it on her laptop.<br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Ron S.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 2:41 PM Cedric Puddy <<a href="mailto:cedric@ccjclearline.com">cedric@ccjclearline.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Chris and Znoteer,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for bringing up some good memories! <br></div><div><br></div><div>Daaaaaamn. I love it. When I was at MKS, and in school, I would often be in the office late doing school work (had a sweet NCD X-term setup at my desk! Big HP 4Si laser printers just sitting there! A 64 kbit Internet connection from UUnet!), primarily running WorldPerfect for Unix on our SunOS host ("giga", I believe because it had a gig of ram).<br></div><div><br></div><div>I figure I had a blackbelt in WordPerfect at the time (I recall doing complex formulas and such, etc), but when I fired it up again years later, I found that it was almost nothing like riding a bike or falling off a log. I don't know about anyone else, but that muscle memory seems to have consisted entirely of conscript labour, since those neurons dropped shovels & headed for the hills at the first opportunity.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div> Best Regards,<br></div><div> -Cedric<br></div><div><br></div><div>[ cp ] { IT | Photography | Audio | Maker Stuff | <a href="mailto:cedric@thinkers.org" target="_blank">cedric@thinkers.org</a> }<br></div><div>[Interested in a community workshop? 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