In brief: Before Microsoft Word became the de-facto standard for word processing on the PC, the market was rich with choice. WordStar is a program many great writers started their career on, and now ...

WordStar is a beloved MS-DOS-era word processing tool known as a favorite of writers like George R.R. Martin. And thanks to author Robert J. Sawyer, there’s a new archive designed to help you run its ...

Even today, some authors still use DOS word processing software from the '90s. I used WS in late 80's and 90's through-out junior high/high school. I don't remember much but I'm pretty sure it never ...

George R.R. Martin is an impressive man. Not only can he kill off characters like it’s NBD, and magically make you care for characters who have been historically evil, but he writes millions of words ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. WordStar was one of the first ...

The literary history of the early years of word processing—the late 1960s through the mid-’80s—forms the subject of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s new book, Track Changes. The year 1984 was a key moment ...

In the early 1980s, Victor Business Products of Chicago began selling a microcomputer manufactured by Sirius Systems Technology in Scotts Valley, California. The Victor 9000 was quickly outsold by the ...

If you're one of the 6.6 million people who watch "Game Of Thrones" or have bought any of the 24 million copies of "A Song Of Ice and Fire" that are in print, you've spent hours inside the mind of ...

Get your party hats on and stuff yourself with cake. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Long before GPUs and multicore processors ...

Every now and then I realize that NOT using the cursor keys at all (but in my case the Emacs combos ctrl-b, ctrl-f, ctrl-p and ctrl-n as supported in OS X) is not what everybody does these days... In ...