> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 May 2014 11:04:01 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>>"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>>> On 2014-05-13 2:38 PM, The Cook wrote:
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>>>> We belonged to a couple of computer groups several years go. One of
>>>> the more knowledgeable members said "Never buy and even numbered DOS."
>>>> That is still good advice.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Indeed. I don't think I would by any DOS these days. I don't know how
>>> long some of the people here have using their own computers, but when I
>>> got my first IMB clone, an XT, I had to buy MS DOS to run it, and it was
>>> couple hundred dollars, as was Word Perfect.
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>>Do you remember 'Wordstar'? Now that is a blast from the past))
>
> I just read a book by Christopher Buckley about his parents and his
> father frustrated him by only ever using Wordstar !

) It was the first proper word processor I ever used)

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