[ale] Introduction and info about myself

[James Taylor]

Age is relative. After all, who hasn't used Wordstar on a CP/M based
Xerox 820 with the mapped function keys?
(*crickets chirping*)
-jt


James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> 10/29/2012   02:34 PM >>> 
Wordstar.   Ahem... you're - uh - age is showing   :p

My start in computers was working on a PC with DOS 2.0 with Lotus 123
version 1A.   Back in those days even the format command assumed you
meant "the current drive" so if you typed "format" rather than "format
A:" after inserting a floppy it would happily overwrite the C: drive
you'd started the format command from.  Back then we didn't even have
"D'oh!" to express our feelings as it was pre-Simpsons.

I remember when I first used Wordperfect on Novel version 2 and how its
big selling point was that you could hide or display formatting codes at
will so it was an improvement over Wordstar which until then had been
the killer word processing app.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Beddingfield, Allen
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 2:20 PM
To: simontek at gmail.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself

I suppose I fall into the vi category, since I have only used emacs
onceŠwell, I opened it once, and then I spent all of the time it was
open trying to figure out how to get out of it :D  Figuring out the pid
at another terminal and killing it works nicely, BTW.
As for nano/pico - my nickname for them is "The line-wrapping config
file mangler!"  They work great a long as no one opens a complex config
file with really long lines.  I'm also partial to joe, since I used to
be a WordStar fanatic, and most of the key sequences match up -
especially when you open it with "jstar"

--
Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama




On 10/29/12 12:17 PM, "simontek at gmail.com" <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:

>I use vi myself. A lot of people I know use nano, only 2 people I
know
>use emacs. I figure if I have to use a manual just to exit the
program, I
>don't need it.
>Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>
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