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Steven Sinofsky

This is too much. ❤️ BTW, there's a fun book on the history of word processing in literature called "Track Changes" smile.amazon.com/Track-Changes- by

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The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS vice.com/en/article/wxd via @motherboard (He uses Movie Master)

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Includes a section on Frank Herbert! He didn’t write DUNE on a computer, but he did collaborate on a now-forgotten non-fiction book *about* computers entitled WITHOUT ME YOU’RE NOTHING.

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Steven Sinofsky

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I have this book!

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William F. Buckley was a passionate WordStar user. From a Time Magazine article: “I’m told there are better programs, but I’m also told there are better alphabets.”

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I have strong memories of this photo of Stephen King.

Stephen King using a Wang word processor in the early 1980s.

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I hope there's someone, somewhere trying to keep a Wang word processor alive.

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I thought this is what

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My tiny claim to fame is renaming Revision Marking → Track Changes and Annotations → Comments in Word ’97 😊

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