After teasing, now I get to air my dirty laundry too.

I had my TI-99/4A w/Assembler module, and spent some time with both my TRS-80 and my C64. Dang, those were fun little boxes.

On a DOS6.22 286 (IBM-AT), I had my custom built dBaseIII+ applications. Then went to Clipper5. Hoo-man, those were the days... :cool: :D

Then I played with TurboPascal and COBOL for a bit before gettin' giggy with OS/2 - yowza!

If you are serious....
 

To re-live the heady times of days gone by.....

I have Turbo Pascal 1.0 with all 3 manuals and 4 (5 1/4") floppys in near mint condition. Pay shipping and they are yours.:p

Preach it! Word Perfect so much better a program. And it handles graphics so much more intuitively.

Back on topic: I still have my Word Perfect for Windows version 5 disks. I don't have anything to read them on, but I still have them.

Graphics? I don't recall graphics on the Word Perfect for VMS that I used back in the day. Maybe that was because we were running on text only dumb terminals... :)

I do wish I had held on to my old Trash-80 with the 16k RAM and a cassette tape deck for storage. It would be fun to fire that up again.

As I wish I had my old Commodore64. I've played with some of the C64 emulators and they are spookily accurate.

I used my old TRS Model 100 laptop well into the '90s for quick and dirty text stuff. (not that kind of dirty :p )

I also should have kept my trusty Compaq Portable w/ 300 baud and the Hayes Smart Modem 1200B inboard upgrade. Compuserve and GE Genie was all I used 20 years ago.

Yup, it was AmiPro first. But before then, it was a DOS program called Samna Word. Writer's Digest magazine rated it #1 for writers (could even do 2 windows at once back then) with the caveat that it was too pricey for hobby writers. I think I bought a copy on sale for $300 way back in the mid-80s when I bought my first computer (double floppy, no hard drive).

Ami Pro! That's the name I was trying to remember! It was a sweet word processor. Only reason I gave it up was because I couldn't send attachments to anyone else I knew.

ahhh, those were the days...
 

I loved my Apple ][+ computer. That is NOT a Macintosh. (any time I ever mention it, people always say, "Oh yeah I had a Mac II also!" and I need to explain to them that Apple had another line of computers before the Mac).

I remember all the great software, especially the games... :D Choplifter, Rescue Raiders, Ultima, Castle Wolfenstein, etc...

Here is a site I just found with loads of Apple II links: http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs4MAJORSITES.html
And a place where you can play old Apple II games in your browser: http://www.virtualapple.org/.

Haha, just spent half an hour playing choplifter again... http://www.virtualapple.org/choplifterdisk.html

Oh yeah, and then there's all the boring software like Visicalc, Bankstreetwriter, etc...

I used Ami Pro too. And what was the name of their spreadsheet?
Rita