<div dir="ltr"><div class="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="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="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="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron S.<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="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="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Chris and Znoteer,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for bringing up some good memories! </div><div><br></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).<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.</div><div><br></div><div> Best Regards,<br> -Cedric<br><br>[ cp ] { IT | Photography | Audio | Maker Stuff | <a href="mailto:cedric@thinkers.org" target="_blank">cedric@thinkers.org</a> }<br>[Interested in a community workshop? Check out KwartzLab!]<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 at 05:05, Chris Frey <<a href="mailto:cdfrey@foursquare.net" target="_blank">cdfrey@foursquare.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thanks for sharing that... the book "Almost Perfect" that was linked<br>
from the article is also pretty fascinating:<br>
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<a href="http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.wordplace.com/ap/index.shtml</a><br>
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- Chris<br>
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