Microsoft Word turns 40
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In 1983, David Copperfield vanished the Statue of Liberty and Word for DOS turned up

My nostalgia is telling me WordPerfect 6 for DOS was peak word processing. Also apparently I’m nostalgic about a word processor, surprisingly.

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WP 5.1, here. Borrowed the installation disks from work and photocopied the keyboard overlay.

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