What was the first word processor hardware/software you ever used?

[yelo333]

We had an Apple IIe w/ Apple IIe which I believe had AppleWorks on it. Only played games, though, so I only watched it being used.

The first one I recall using was ClarisWorks (4.0?) under OS 7 on a Macintosh LC III.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
My family had an old Atari, I can't remember the model. The 'keyboard' unit opened up in the back, revealing slots for two cartridges (only one I ever used was for BASIC). Two 5 1/4" floppy drives. I *think* there was a dot-matrix printer, but I might be confusing that with our old IBM PS/2.

Membrane keyboard would make it an Atari 400, regular style keys probably an Atari 800.

 

[ZetaEpyon]

We had Bank Street Writer on our Commodore 128, as I recall.

In middle school, we still did our typing class on typewriters (albiet electric), we also had a word processing class in which we used WordPerfect 5.1, in all its glory.

Now, I'm mostly using FrameMaker 6 (yeah, it's old too) for stuff here at work.

 

[NaOH]

wordperfect on windows 3.1

 

[Skunkwourk]

Originally posted by: yelo333
We had an Apple IIe w/ Apple IIe which I believe had AppleWorks on it. Only played games, though, so I only watched it being used.

The first one I recall using was ClarisWorks (4.0?) under OS 7 on a Macintosh LC III.

pretty much the same, cept ClarisWorks 3.0 and Mac LC later.

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
My family had an old Atari, I can't remember the model. The 'keyboard' unit opened up in the back, revealing slots for two cartridges (only one I ever used was for BASIC). Two 5 1/4" floppy drives. I *think* there was a dot-matrix printer, but I might be confusing that with our old IBM PS/2.

Membrane keyboard would make it an Atari 400, regular style keys probably an Atari 800.

Thank you, IIRC it was regular style. I was fairly young at the time, so I couldn't recall the exact model. Now I'm off to google specs ....

Edit: No printer, so I must've been thinking about the PS/2 having a Dot-matrix.

 

[Baked]

I used a piece of coal.

 

[JRich]

GEOSWrite for the C64.

 

[Papagayo]

used to own ADAM

 

[rhatsaruck]

Document formatting software named SCRIPT running under VM/CMS on an IBM 370/158. Output was printed on a Texas Instruments portable dial-up terminal on heat-sentitive paper.

There's only *one* good thing about the "good ole days": they ain't ever coming back.

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Wordstar on some kind of CP/M machine.

 

[ZoomStop]

GEOWrite running in GEOS on a 286. When I needed graphics I fired up GEODraw.
Later we upgraded so I could run EDIT.EXE

 

[geecee]

AtariWriter(?) on my Atari 800. Then Appleworks when I switched to an Apple II. My first "real" word processor as a DOS version of Wordperfect on an old IBM XT(?) clone.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Appleworks on an Apple II+. It needed an 80-column card to be able to run it.

 

[D1gger]

Mine was the IBM Displaywriter, which ran on the CP/M operating system and had an external 5 1/4 floppy drive that looked like a toaster. Very slow, very painful to use, but they were plentyful back in the day.