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Not forgetting dear old LocoScript on Amstrad 'Joyces' (on CPM) - used in offices where I worked c. 1984. Rod On Monday 17 February 2014 13:35:53 Mark Evans wrote: > On 16/02/14 22:39, Eion MacDonald wrote: > > On 16/02/2014 22:28, Mark Evans wrote: > >> What's a "lifetime corporate Windows user" anyway? It simply hasn't > >> been around long enough for people near retirement to have been > >> using it for their entire working life > > > > "Their lifetime since using computers" = "lifetime corporate Windows > > user" for the average office s/he. > > Only accounts folk had experience of computers before 'personal > > computers' on each desk. > > However the first "office applications" were the likes of Wordperfect, > Wordstar, Visicalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Multiplan (the only Microsoft product). > > The IBM PC (with MSDOS) wasn't the first "business PC" either. > > Even MacWrite preceded MS Word. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq