ugh. I hated WordStar compared to other word processors at the time. I preferred the early WordPerfect and early DOS Microsoft Word versions, and WP and Word just got better over time. WordStar seemed stuck in its own little CP/M world as the rest of the universe passed it by.
I especially hated recovering crashed WordStar files off the hard drive or floppy because all the formatting codes were embedded within the text. I had to manually strip all that crap out just to recover the text of the document. And there's nothing more pleasant than a furious secretary breathing down your neck to recover that most important document that She lost because she insisted on putting her laser printer on top of the CPU case because it "looked nicer." I had to repeatedly move it and explain that the laser printer weight pushing on the CPU case kept bending the motherboard causing internal connection faults (I said "breaking the computer inside"), plus the sheer amount of heat given off by both the CPU and the printer would cause the CPU to heat-fault, especially when she kept insisting on putting her plants near the air intakes.
Sorry. Seeing "WordStar" in a post triggered buried memories:D
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ugh. I hated WordStar compared to other word processors at the time. I preferred the early WordPerfect and early DOS Microsoft Word versions, and WP and Word just got better over time. WordStar seemed stuck in its own little CP/M world as the rest of the universe passed it by.
:D
I especially hated recovering crashed WordStar files off the hard drive or floppy because all the formatting codes were embedded within the text. I had to manually strip all that crap out just to recover the text of the document. And there's nothing more pleasant than a furious secretary breathing down your neck to recover that most important document that She lost because she insisted on putting her laser printer on top of the CPU case because it "looked nicer." I had to repeatedly move it and explain that the laser printer weight pushing on the CPU case kept bending the motherboard causing internal connection faults (I said "breaking the computer inside"), plus the sheer amount of heat given off by both the CPU and the printer would cause the CPU to heat-fault, especially when she kept insisting on putting her plants near the air intakes.
Sorry. Seeing "WordStar" in a post triggered buried memories