One of the reasons for the Z80 SoftCard's initial success is that, because it could run CP/M programs, it could also run WordStar. WordStar was the word-processing software giant in the early 1980s.

The pattern of W-A-Z, E-S-D-X, and R-F-C keys used with the Ctrl key in WordStar. It allowed all scrolling functions to be done with the left hand in its normal keyboard position. Although it ...

Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer, Robert J. Sawyer, has painstakingly packaged a distribution of WordStar 7.0d for DOS. Sawyer says he spent weeks of his time crafting this ...

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting-edge PC operating system, 300bps was a fast Internet connection, WordStar was ...

Except for book publishers, the Internet Archive has done no one any harm. But that hasn't stopped hackers from beating up on ...

Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

A storyteller played music on a small harp or a lyre to accompany their stories and poems. Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches, beads and gold ornaments. At first, their artwork was pagan, but ...

Floppy disk based with 64K of memory, the Osborne 1 used the CP/M operating system and a modified version of the WordStar word processor that would display only 40 characters at a time across its ...

It is no secret that I have a few things permanently burned into my neurons: the 1802 instruction set, the commands for WordStar, and the commands for emacs. There was a time when emacs was almost ...

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