Robert J. Sawyer

Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

WordStar for DOS 7.0 archive updated

Monday, August 12th, 2024

I’ve updated my WordStar for DOS 7.0 archive, based on feedback from the thousands of people who downloaded the initial public release (which was version 1.4, dated July 30, 2024).This new version is 1.5, dated August 12, 2024. The new version has the file size of the PDF manuals reduced (which cuts the archive size […]

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Forty years of using WordStar!

Saturday, December 16th, 2023

Forty years ago today, on December 16, 1983, I started using the word-processing program WordStar. Two days earlier, I’d acquired my first computer, an Osborne 1B, which came bundled with the CP/M operating system, SuperCalc spreadsheet, Microsoft BASIC, and WordStar 2.26. And, today, I still use WordStar: WordStar for DOS 7.0 Revision D, the final […]

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