Comments on: Just A Thought

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:32:12 +0000

Ahh! Yep! That’s right. 😀 I remembered DataStar after I posted the above, but forgot MailMerge. 🙂

And yeah, I remember the Diablo Daisywheel printers. I think we sold one with every copy of WordStar! Was so easy to make money in those days. 😉

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:25:35 +0000

My Mother still uses WordStar on her machine which she refuses to allow me to upgrade.

There was DataStar and MailMerge. MailMerge was the reason my clients used it, as well as the better printing results on the Diable 630 printers.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:02:47 +0000

That’s true Bryan! ‘datum’ is singular. Ahhh… The amazing things one learns in Intel training! 😆

I still have a the full WordStar suite, on 8″ floppies! WordStar, CalcStar and a couple others I forget. I used to sell them here, and they just shipped a master set and I had to make copies to sell. Was cheaper and faster than shipping from the USA. I think I may have a 5.25″ set too.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:55:27 +0000

Good luck on your crusade, Badtux, but it will be no more successful that mine to convince people that “data” is plural.

“Spell Check” goes back to the SpellStar program, part of the WordStar suite, on CP/M machines in the last century.

Everyone should have at least one windmill to call their own.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:23:06 +0000

Hmph. When your Patronus is as big as Harry's (ahem), you hardly need a checker. And in the more mundane world we inhabit, I've never heard "spelling checker" used even one time. Steve Bates´s last blog post..Guaranteed To Engender Mixed Feelings

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:27:58 +0000

A nit to pick: Harry Potter has a spell checker. The rest of us have spelling checkers :-). -- Badtux the Nitpicky Penguin Badtux´s last blog post..Well, well...

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:23:06 +0000

The powers that be are determined to include the insurance companies – the people responsible for the out of control costs.

By: andante

andante — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:46:51 +0000

Seems I can’t type, spell, or check these days.

As to the point on Medicare for all/single payer –

Duh

Just another excellent point in favor. It’s hard to see how anyone can dispute it, but if it doesn’t make someone rich , there will always be morons against it.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:48:52 +0000

Ahh! That's why you need a grammar checker! :D ;) I use This one. It's commercial, but works with any editor and has a thesaurus and a lot of Word lists, even esoteric ones! :D ;)

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:26:45 +0000

most of us are bad editors of our own riting, for that vry reason. i just linked because i've always liked that one [several folks have emailed it to me over the years]. hipparchia´s last blog post..Send faxes, faxes, and money! [update]