CP/M Alive and Well!! (1 Viewer)

The_Doc_Man

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Brings me back to the days of my Osborne-One (Z-80 CPU) and Wordstar for CP/M.
 

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And SuperStar which I think was the spreadsheet equivalent is said to have brought the PC to the business world out of the typing pools.
 

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It has been so long that I don't recall, but there WAS a spreadsheet and there was also a version of BASIC that wasn't terribly bad. I liked Wordstar enough that when I moved to a "real" PC I got Wordstar for DOS and later, for Windows. Wife and I used it to make our own wedding invitations. As I recall, it was a $10 Wordstar disk, a $10 Fonts disk, and a $10 graphics and images disk plus my HP Laserjet and a long-arm stapler. I already had the printer and stapler so it cost us $30 plus about half a pack of paper for everything else. We DID hire a printer for the formal invitations, but we did our own program and order of the service. Plus the maps we included in the invitations. Wife and I had a discussion about Wordstar vs. Word Perfect, but I didn't have WP at all on my PC and she didn't have WP/Windows on her system. Considering how well it turned out, she didn't complain that much. The software packages back then were quite capable if occasionally clunky.
 

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