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[Sonnar Brian]

Lily Tomlin had a Skit on Laugh-In where she talked about Punch Cards and "resizing Them" just enough to drive the computer crazy. She soaked them, then dried and ironed them out. Just enough to shrink those tiny little holes.

 

[john_s]

Wordstar, Visicalc and Condor, I remember them well. I still use dBase_III but I've had to stop Windows upgrade to version 11.

 

[Mos6502]

As it happens, I have several old Kaypros which I bought about 20 years ago when they were nearly worthless (I paid about $20-$25 for each of them, they're worth about 5-10X that now). Kaypro bundled them with either Wordstar or Perfect Writer. One of the Kaypros was formerly owned by Ezra Shapiro, who used to write for Byte magazine.
Kaypro and Okidata by Berang Berang, on Flickr

Perfect Writer was one of the first programs to work with "windows" in the sense that you could pull up multiple documents simultaneously and copy and paste text between them. Wordstar however is much more user friendly. The Okidata printer still works perfectly after 40 years.

 

[john_s]

I almost bought one of those Kaypros. I remember one commentator saying it looked like Darth Vader's lunchbox.

 

[wlewisiii]

I'd still like to get a Kaypro 10 with the hard drive 😎

 

[Mos6502]

I had been on the lookout for a K10 for many years, unfortunately that hard drive is the weak spot for those machines in their old age. Funny because the Tandon full height floppy drives were the weak spot on the standard machines, but they are usually repairable, whereas the hard drives aren't (within reason). My uncle who was selling computers at the time the K10 was new talked about how everybody thought you'd never be able to fill a 10 megabyte drive!

 

[wlewisiii]

It's a pity that there are no MFM/RLL solid state drive adapters like there are for SCSI & IDE drives.