Recollections: The Rise and Fall of WordStar

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October-December 2006 (vol. 28 no. 4) pp. 64-72

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	Seymour Rubinstein, "Recollections: The Rise and Fall of WordStar," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 64-72, October-December, 2006.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MAHC.2006.69, author = {Seymour Rubinstein}, title = {Recollections: The Rise and Fall of WordStar}, journal ={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing}, volume = {28}, number = {4}, issn = {1058-6180}, year = {2006}, pages = {64-72}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2006.69}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Annals of the History of Computing TI - Recollections: The Rise and Fall of WordStar IS - 4 SN - 1058-6180 SP64 EP72 EPD - 64-72 A1 - Seymour Rubinstein, PY - 2006 KW - Sanders Associates KW - WordStar KW - MicroPro International KW - IMSAI KW - WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) KW - QuattroPro KW - Bill Millard KW - Rob Barnaby KW - Prompt Software KW - InterTrust VL - 28 JA - IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ER -

Seymour Rubinstein

This memoir focuses chiefly on the story of WordStar, the pioneering word processing software for personal computers that was ahead of its time. A series of unfortunate circumstances--personal illness, management ineptitude, clash of egos, changing business conditions--converged to bring low a once-promising and shining venture.

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Sanders Associates, WordStar, MicroPro International, IMSAI, WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get), QuattroPro, Bill Millard, Rob Barnaby, Prompt Software, InterTrust

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Seymour Rubinstein, "Recollections: The Rise and Fall of WordStar," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 64-72, Oct.-Dec. 2006, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2006.69

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