homegadgeteer

I remember the days of Wordstar on DOS 2.01. WYZIWYG was probably a children's character on "Watch With Mother", GUI was something on the bottom of your shoe, and a mouse new where it should hide. Excel was something to be done at school, Microsoft Mutliplan and later, Lotus 1-2-3 were serious applications for number jugglers.  On the word processor front, the Wordstar guru knew his way around the keyboard (rather like programming a Sinclair ZX81 without murdering the nerve endings in your fingers), committing a myriad of key combinations to memory to be recalled at a moments notice in the quest to complete a document and finally print it out on a 9-pin dot matrix printer. It was all so innocent, there was a certain pleasure to be had in seeing what the final document would look like (Print Preview also was something to be dreamt about, and would probably be an invention of Gerry Anderson's), and saving trees wasn't even on the guilt agenda.  Over the years thing