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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My mother's writings, in WordStar 4.0. Took some research to open and read them decently today.

Astonishing enough some old fart in love with WordStar not only created all the necessary conversion tools but even packaged WordStar 7 (the last existing release) so that it can be used today.

Edit: to put this in context, WordStar 4 used to run on an IBM compatible 8086 4.7Mhz PC, with wopping 640kb ram and 5.25 floppy disks. We already had an hard drive, some 16mb (iirc) beast that took two full 5.25 bay slots and was driven via MF/RL analog signals or something similar