warrenmca

Remember this is the Netherlands, not the US. Happily, "emergencies" are not a regular occurrence.

somehow this thread has become focused on piano / music lessons, from my reading of Will's post, his experience w.r.t. movie roles and his mother's part in that went way beyond "go practice your piano / violin / oboe" before you hang out with your friends" being discussed here

WordStar had no such limit, think he's referring to Movie Master

I met Tim Patterson back in late '81 or early '82 I was working for Micropro (WordStar) at the time in San Rafael and they flew me up to Seattle. I guess we discussed porting WordStar to SCP-DOS but it's so long ago!

Fourth St. San Rafael, also Northgate Mall

The point was that those commands used muscle-memory and were conceived so that the majority of editing tasks could be executed with leaving the "home" position

Wow, amazing - I worked for Micropro back in the early 80s - ask him about the Barnaby monitor throwing incident sometime...

What a time to be alive! Me, I drink when I'm thirsty.

also microsoft.com, yahoo.com, cnet.com (no surprise there!)