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

[biggestmuff]

Osbourne.

 

[eelw]

Professional Writer

 

[Black88GTA]

AppleWorks on an Apple IIGS

 

[BoomerD]

Wow...going WAAAAAY back,
We had a couple of computers...Texas Instruments something....(tI-99? ) then a Coleco Adam, another TI something, then an NCR 8088 machine that had 640K of ram...WOW 640K! Even Bill Gates said you'd NEVER need more RAM that that...EVER!! LOL! Dual 5-1/4" floppy drives. NO hard drive...Used DOS 3.1 ( I thiink) and a couple of others over the years. Had WordStar, Word Perfect, and Microsoft Word. Also had Lotus 123 and a couple other programs...Printed stuff on a Panasonic Panaprinter dto matrix unit...(still have that in a closet somewhere, but can't get ribbons anymore). Had a Packard Bell (?) 386 for a while, but it had too many problems, so I got rid of it and went back to the 8088 for a couple of years...only did occasional word proccessing, so it worked fine. Then Bill Gates came out with Windows 95...WOW...what an improvment over the earlier windows programs....

 

[KarmaPolice]

computer wise..i dunno. I was in in pre school ( i am a junior i college now). my dad worked for IBM so we always had a computer....

all i know is that it had a blue work processor...reader rabit, packman, and ghostbusters...god..i loved ghostbuster..

 

[Shawn]

A program called Writing Assistant. My dad used it on an IBM PCjr with an 8088 processor. He also used it on his packard bell 286. I was too young to really have any use for a word processor at that time though. The first word processor which actually recieved a lot of use was MS Works for Win 3.1 on our old 486.

 

[IronWing]

Perfect Writer and WordStar on Kaypro CP/M.

Then Apple Writer, then Xwrite, Word for Mac, PCWrite, WordPerfect for DOS, VI, WordPerfect for Windows, Word for Windows, Notepad, WordPad, JEXT.

Somewhere in there I got stuck using edlin for a project which sucked more than you might think possible.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Wordwise on a BBC Micro.

 

[Blain]

386 / Formtool

 

[Ronstang]

Some ridiculous package on a Commodore many many years ago. It sucked so much that I used a typewriter. My first real usage of a work processor was MS Word on a 286 computer that a friend had in graduate school. I bought my own within a semester and have had computers ever since.

 

[Jawo]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
WordPerfect for DOS, probably (can't remember the version)

 

[Anghang]

Bank Street Writer on the C64

 

[Doctorweir]

Beckertext on an Amiga 500 back in '87... 30 years old

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

WordStar

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: zanieladie
A Brother...can't recall the model or anything. All it did was word processing.

ditto. I typed all my college papers on it. Them newfangled compooters were waaay to expensive in my day

indeed... brother ftw

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Never liked word processors that much. First 'real' wordprocessor must have been one of the 5 1/4 inch versions of Word Perfect.

Before that I just used some editor on the Amiga 500. And a typewriter before that

Edit: Couldn't remember the name at first, but that editor was called 'MicroEmacs'

Linky for those who want it for old times sake

 

[dbk]

I used wordpad for the longest time on a packard bell 66mhz TURBO 64xmb HD 4mb ram?...not really sure on the stats b/c it was almost 11 years ago.

 

[walkur]

something something 4 on my Amiga 600 HD

 

[grrl]

Wordperfect on a Tandy SX1000 (8086) computer with Espon dot matrix printer (loud!)

 

[DivideBYZero]

BBC model 'B'. Dunno what the SW was called, 'AncientText' probably

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Wordwise on a BBC Micro.

Bingo (see my previous post)

 

[Colt45]

dos edlin or edit? i forget. does that even count?

 

[Apathetic]

Nuts... I can't remember the name. Anyway, I ran it on my Apple IIe.

Dang it, this is going to bother me all morning. :frown:

Dave

 

[ForumMaster]

umm, think it was AppleWorks on those old Apple II. our school was very cheap. then they upgraded to word 95 for Mac on the original imacs.

 

[Kelemvor]

What about an electric typewriter?

I don't remember when I first used it on a computer but it wold have been whatever came with MACs back in the day...