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(Unverified)Mar 12th 2008 8:30AM

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LOL... Word? WordStar? Do your parents know you're skipping school today? Try Scripsit on a TRS-80 Model I in 1979, outputting to an Okidata dot-matrix printer. THAT was word processing.

I actually made money a few years later writing an article explaining how to add fonts to ColorWrite, one of the earliest WYSIWYG word processors, on the TRS-80 Color Computer.

Are you guys even old enough to remember when WYSIWYG was a feature, instead of an acronym that was quickly forgotten as soon as everything was just assumed to look identical on screen and in print?

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