Subj : GWBASIC
To   : ED VANCE
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sun Nov 09 2025 09:16:14

EV>Rob and Mike, The first DOS PC I had my hands on at work had GWBASIC.
  >It was made by ITT ( I think) and had DOS  v 2.11 on it.
  >There was a bunch of books for that computer, and Me using a Commodore 64 jus
  >had to look through those books to see what I could learn about DOS 2.11 .

I'm pretty sure my first copy was from ITT as well. Funny, I still had
the original books and floppy disks for that until about 2 years ago.
I'm a bit of a Pack Rat..   B)

Mine was a bit newer (DOS 3.3) and I only got that for the software
from a friend who worked in Telecom since I'd built a computer from
parts and needed to find an OS for it..

Let's see, since this was DOS (for a PC) it was probably in 1987.
Prior to that I had built 2 Apple II+ clones using Apple software.

EV>On my XP box if I need to do fancy stuff in a text file I use
  >Open Office 4.1.3.
  >I mostly use Wordpad instead of Notepad so I can write sections in a
  >different size font or to underline some parts of what I am writing.

Yes, I can understand using Wordpad as I did it myself until I ran
across Jarte a lot of years back and still use today..

EV>Just thought Iwould jump in and comment.

Always interesting to hear where people got started..   B)

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