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Post by Slinger on May 9, 2023 22:24:36 GMT
Micro$haft Orifice? No ta very much. I've used "Open Office" and "Libre Office" for years. They both do everything I need these days, and a lot more if truth be told.
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Post by MartinT on May 10, 2023 4:59:12 GMT
27" monitor for me, too. It overwhelms my Minisforum X400 AMD PC.
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Post by petea on May 10, 2023 6:14:58 GMT
I use a 27" monitor in my study in the UK too, although in that case it's an Apple Cinema Display. I do have Windows 11, but running as a VM under MacOS on an Apple Studio. I have now switched the Apple Pros in Germany to an Apple Studio, but here I use three 21" monitors, one of which is a calibrated NEC Spectraview for image and video processing (the other 2 are also NEC units and look the same and are profiled to match as close as one can to the Spectraview). Again Windows 11 is running as a VM mainly because I prefer to write in WordPerfect and I have some specialised statistical software that only runs under Windows.
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Post by MartinT on May 10, 2023 9:46:04 GMT
WordPerfect! There's a blast from the past with its blue screen and control codes everywhere.
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Post by Tim on May 10, 2023 9:51:19 GMT
I used to really like WordPerfect - it felt like you were using a computer.
Been a LibreOffice user for quite sometime now though, doubt I'll ever change that.
Crikey, all 27" monitors too . . . I certainly am a cheapskate!
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Post by MikeMusic on May 10, 2023 9:53:32 GMT
Loved WordPerfect great package
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Post by petea on May 10, 2023 13:08:15 GMT
WordPerfect! There's a blast from the past with its blue screen and control codes everywhere. I've used it since its first PC release back on the original IBM PCs in the early 80s. Before that it was only available on DEC and similar 'mini' computers and there were 4 or 5 WP workstations in the typing pool at the ICI research station I worked out. Mind you weren't allowed on them, you had to hand over a hand-written draft. It still has all of the codes in there accessed by reveal code (or F5) and you can switch the interface to MSDos keyboard and shortcuts (as I do) and use it completely free of a mouse just like in version 3 (I think that was the first PC variant). What a shame they discontinued the Mac version (they were never fully committed). I do use Word to be compatible with certain customers, but find it cumbersome in comparison to WP. |
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Post by MartinT on May 10, 2023 14:09:40 GMT
In my early role in computer support, especially printers, I learned to use WordPerfect, WordStar and DisplayWrite in equal measure. Word came quite a lot later.
I have to admit I do like Word, but then I'm an everyday Office 365 user and its connected-ness is amazing, even taking me to the exact location where I was last editing it on a different device. Not to mention multiple real-time editors and the superb version history.
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Post by MartinT on May 10, 2023 14:34:37 GMT
WordPerfect, WordStar and DisplayWrite I've just remembered MultiMate, too. I carried a floppy disk of the same printer test page for each WP type, making it a lot easier to test functionality and ensuring that no characters were missing in daisywheel and spinwriter type printers. Those were the days. |
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Post by petea on May 10, 2023 14:41:02 GMT
How about IBM DisplayWrite?!
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Post by Slinger on May 10, 2023 15:03:28 GMT
Tasword, anyone?  ot this one..?  |
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Post by MartinT on May 10, 2023 18:07:48 GMT
How about IBM DisplayWrite?! Mentioned above! |
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Post by petea on May 10, 2023 18:31:08 GMT
Oops, so it was! I quite liked it despite the bizarre filing system.
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Post by MartinT on May 11, 2023 5:09:03 GMT
They all had their merits, I probably used DisplayWrite the most and WordStar the least.
The first time I installed MS Word I thought "what the hell?" loading floppy disk after disk to install it.
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Post by Tim on May 11, 2023 12:31:47 GMT
The first time I installed MS Word I thought "what the hell?" loading floppy disk after disk to install it. Haha, yup  |
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Post by Slinger on May 11, 2023 13:55:24 GMT
Word? Pah. When I bought my first PC I also bought MS Orifice, the whole darn thing, which came on "Diskettes", twenty of them. The manuals filled a bookshelf.  |
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Post by Tim on May 11, 2023 13:58:34 GMT
Haha . . . diskettes, you old fart  |
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Post by Slinger on May 11, 2023 14:02:20 GMT
Haha . . . diskettes, you old fart Oi! I resemble that remark. |
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Post by MartinT on May 11, 2023 14:41:00 GMT
Word? Pah. When I bought my first PC I also bought MS Orifice Word, Excel and PowerPoint were all separate when they first came out. Yes, they were diskettes but nobody said "floppy diskettes"  |
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Post by MartinT on May 11, 2023 14:47:53 GMT
Just for fun, I received a Surface Laptop 5 i7 today for a member of staff and had to downgrade it to W10, because we're only migrating to W11 next year. However, it only has one USB-A and one USB-C port with no ethernet and you cannot image over wi-fi.
So... I used a USB hub to connect the MDT (Microsoft Deployment Tool) boot drive, ethernet via USB adapter, keyboard and mouse to boot into MDT, select the options and blast the SSD with a clean install of W10 (the onboard keyboard and mouse were unresponsive without the right drivers).
It worked and updated all the drivers. It's also one very fast machine with 10 CPU cores - nice!
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