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Originally Posted by darryl
Hi Hitch,
I always enjoy your contributions. I rarely take things personally.
Believe it or not I was never a user or fan of Word Perfect. But it was the mainstay of the legal profession for a long time. I personally used Wordstar IV Pro for quite a while and then Word 5. It was a sad day when Word 5 was one of the few apps to actually fall to the Y2K bug. Many ezxperienced legal secretaries at the time were forever complaining that moving to a so-called WIMP enviroment was a backward step for many reasons, including having to use the mouse to perform various tasks. As I said in my post, it was probably at leastp artly due to a dislike of change. And of course of moving from a product they knew intimately to one where they largely had to start again. I think most word processors, old and new, have a certain logic once you learn them thoroughly, to the point where it can be hard to be objective. Personally I thouhgt Word 5 was probably the best (and also one of the last) of the old DOS Word Processing programs. But I understand that Word Pefect worked very efficiently once you learned it thoroughly.
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Y'know, it's funny. I kinda/maybe remember the whole "mouse" thing. I DO recall feeling contemptuous, at one point in time, for "mousers." (I seem to recall being pretty sexist about it, too. which is...unworthy of me. Bad Hitch.)
I also to this day mouse off-handed. When I first started "mousing," I was still using a crap-ton of spreadsheets. Seemed daft to use ONE hand for both, so I learnt to mouse left-handed (I'm right-dom). I still do, so that I could write notes with my right (on real live paper, gosh...) and mouse with the left to nav. We started out using a...gosh, Digi-Tab III digitizing tablet, angled slightly (up) and I still have that set up. (For the mousing side, obviously.)
Of course...it's given me the worst bloody frozen shoulder in history, in my left. There are days I have to stop using the kb altogether and Dragon my way through the afternoon b/c I can no longer lift my left to mouse.
Dumbass that I am.
Hitch