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Post #184,351 by SpiceWare 11/17/04 2:29:01 PM Reply	Wang VS 75 At least I think it was the 75, been a while. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #184,353 by Another Scott 11/17/04 2:49:29 PM Reply	My mother used an NBI something or other in the early '80s. NBI = "Nothing But Initials" supposedly. It used 8" floppies. Cheers, Scott.
Post #184,368 by jb4 11/17/04 6:40:16 PM Reply	NBI is a word processor, not a computer per se (Of course, there was a computer of some sort in there, but all it would do is process words.) jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #184,370 by Another Scott 11/17/04 7:00:37 PM Reply	Wasn't Wang's stuff similar?
Post #184,395 by Ashton 11/18/04 3:22:13 AM Reply	Dunno, but.. Typing a paper on a Wang - was for me the intro to instant editing sans Whiteout! You could write your closing \ufffd whenever the little grey cells spit out your Point, and not by some inane serial process of.. waiting. Looked promising, that. Looking at the km² of utter c r a p that led-to.. my enthusiasm was wildly misplaced.
Post #184,449 by jb4 11/18/04 6:29:49 PM 11/18/04 6:31:27 PM Reply	Wang also had a word processor The world leader, in fact. However, as the market for dedicated word processors petered out, Wang upgraded the word processor hardware, added some form of OS (dunno exactly what that was), bundled their word processing package and sold the whole shebang as a "general purpose" computer that also happened to support the leading word processor of the day. IIRC, the thing was non standard in both hardware and software, and very expensive compared to the Apple ][ and that newfangled IBM PC that was just starting to hit the market at the time. Also, a company called AMI released software for the PC called, appropriately "Ami" that worked just like the Wang word processor software. Would even read Wang WP disks, IIRC. That was basically the death of the Wang as a market player. [edit: typos, what else?] jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT Edited by jb4 Nov. 18, 2004, 06:31:27 PM EST Expand All History

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IBM 709. - (a6l6e6x) - Nov. 17, 2004, 09:33:45 AM EST

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Let's see... - (Another Scott) - Nov. 17, 2004, 09:53:11 AM EST

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Depending on how you count, Mac 7, or Pentium 1 - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 17, 2004, 10:38:48 AM EST

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I dabbled in programming the 64... - (bepatient) - Nov. 17, 2004, 05:48:39 PM EST

Not sure if I count - (Nightowl) - Nov. 17, 2004, 02:37:04 PM EST

Interdata 7-32 - (jb4) - (4) - Nov. 17, 2004, 01:56:45 PM EST

I didn't use one at University, so I can't ... - (imric) - (3) - Nov. 17, 2004, 02:16:37 PM EST

No...but you had that radio shack thing - (bepatient) - (2) - Nov. 17, 2004, 05:51:25 PM EST

*grin* Feed The World -NT - (imric) - (1) - Nov. 17, 2004, 06:02:14 PM EST

one gd drunk at a time -NT - (bepatient) - Nov. 17, 2004, 06:47:23 PM EST

Wang VS 75 - (SpiceWare) - (5) - Nov. 17, 2004, 02:29:01 PM EST

My mother used an NBI something or other in the early '80s. - (Another Scott) - (4) - Nov. 17, 2004, 02:49:29 PM EST

NBI is a word processor, not a computer per se - (jb4) - (3) - Nov. 17, 2004, 06:40:16 PM EST

Wasn't Wang's stuff similar? -NT - (Another Scott) - (2) - Nov. 17, 2004, 07:00:37 PM EST

Dunno, but.. - (Ashton) - Nov. 18, 2004, 03:22:13 AM EST

Wang also had a word processor - (jb4) - Nov. 18, 2004, 06:31:27 PM EST

IBM PC - (altmann) - (1) - Nov. 17, 2004, 04:22:55 PM EST

I would hope so! :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - Nov. 17, 2004, 04:40:38 PM EST

first computer I worked on - (daemon) - Nov. 17, 2004, 05:49:33 PM EST

Several "levels" - (broomberg) - Nov. 17, 2004, 07:16:40 PM EST

Not entirely fair. - (static) - Nov. 17, 2004, 07:29:54 PM EST

Tandy/Radio-Shack 6000 "multi-user" with XENIX - (folkert) - Nov. 17, 2004, 08:04:21 PM EST

PDP 11 -NT - (slugbug) - (7) - Nov. 17, 2004, 09:33:15 PM EST

That reminds me of something - (ben_tilly) - (6) - Nov. 17, 2004, 10:40:14 PM EST

does this mean.... - (slugbug) - (5) - Nov. 18, 2004, 01:56:22 PM EST

Sorry but... - (ben_tilly) - (4) - Nov. 18, 2004, 03:53:18 PM EST

my bad..... - (slugbug) - (3) - Nov. 18, 2004, 09:24:17 PM EST

Ha! :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - Nov. 18, 2004, 09:58:08 PM EST

how the heck do you flirt with the alta ergo :-) ? - (daemon) - Nov. 18, 2004, 11:16:57 PM EST

Hint: Clairol is only clear in ads - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 19, 2004, 10:48:58 AM EST

Guess it depends on the definition of 'used' - (Ashton) - Nov. 18, 2004, 03:12:52 AM EST

Original IBM PC running at 4.77 Mhz - (lincoln) - (2) - Nov. 18, 2004, 09:45:11 AM EST

Originals had 4k or 16k. - (static) - Nov. 18, 2004, 08:01:59 PM EST

Same box here. -NT - (mmoffitt) - Nov. 22, 2004, 11:20:22 AM EST

Vic20 - (Steve Lowe) - Nov. 18, 2004, 01:25:28 PM EST

Re: Practical Demonstration of Breadth Of ZIWTer Experience - (JayMehaffey) - Nov. 18, 2004, 08:17:33 PM EST

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Mac SE - (rcareaga) - Nov. 20, 2004, 10:55:33 PM EST

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