Re: certification (was: ranting STC)

[Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- covad -dot- net>]

Ladonna Weeks wrote:
> Does anybody remember WordStar? It was pre-GUI but had good
> control key assignments. I could type so fast with it. I was
> sorry to see it go. I hated Word Perfect. I could never remember
> whether to use Alt, Ctrl, or Shift with whatever function key was
> supposed to do a particular thing. I printed the chart and tacked
> it to the wall and still had trouble.
>   
The first manuals I ever wrote were on a bootleg copy of Wordstar 3.31 
on a bastard CP/M machine.
I printed to a dot-matrix printer, pasted up graphics, and photocopied 
for production.
The photocopy smoothed the dots and made the text look better.
"production" meant 5 or 10 copies for whatever class I was teaching at 
the time.
8" floppies, one for O/S and one for apps.
A mono text monitor for... text, and a Tektronix graphics terminal for 
graphics. (It was actually a proprietary kinda programming system for 
CNC laser cutting systems)
4MHz Z80, 64KB Ram.
An external expansion box that was close to  a cubic foot, just used for 
a 64kb RAM drive.
The other engineers called it a Buick, 'cause it was about as big as one.

cheers
Jay
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