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A look back: Your favorite classic word processors
- h2odragon 3y agoWordperfect 5.1 was an amazing system. It could be stripped down to run off a 1.2mb floppy disk. This was a big help when I needed to sit someone in the front of a convention center to register guests and print their "Hello my name is --" badges. All I had to spare for the job was an Epson Equity 2 with no HDD. It was incredibly capable, however. Several years later, we did all the layout of a weekly "TV guide" magazine using WP 5.1. Nice "grid view" schedules and all. generated with WP macros fed by some QBasic scripts that downloaded and reformatted the data. I laid out several books for folks in WP5.1