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Software Trivia
Sometimes we all work too hard and need to take a break and have fun.
Therefore, I have a trivia question for you. You may have to put your thinking caps on or hop into your wayback machine to find this.
What was the first word processor ever developed to be run EXCLUSIVELY in a Windows environment and who released it?
Hint 1: It was never a DOS application. It was never a Macintosh application. It required Windows from its initial release, Version 1.0
Hint 2: Dont bother searching the Virtual Dr archive, you wont find the answer there
Hint 3: Its still around
Any ideas?
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The wife thinks IBM released it but can't remember the name.
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Ok, here's a shot in the dark, was it AES?
[This message has been edited by qec99 (edited 03-03-2001).]
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Hi Mosaic
BEEP
WRONG!!
Youre most likely thinking of Word Perfect. That was a DOS application LONG before it was a Windows one
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[This message has been edited by PCSolutions (edited 03-03-2001).]
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Hi qec99
BEEP
WRONG!!
IBM did make a word processor. I forget the name of it but it was a DOS application
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[This message has been edited by PCSolutions (edited 03-03-2001).]
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Dig deeper
Want another hint?
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Yes Please... I was thinking wordperfect....Little to new though...
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Hint 4: You can still buy it. Even the latest version of it
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is the answer MS WORD????
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DOn't forget to Feel PRoud and wcw sucks
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Word was a DOS application long before it was a windows application
The graphical MSWORD was a Mac applicaction before it was a windows application
To clarify hint 4 - you can still buy it, the latest version but it is not known by its original name
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[This message has been edited by PCSolutions (edited 03-03-2001).]
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Do you mean a full-fledged Word processor or would notepad or works suffice. I would assume that one of those was the first as they were released with Windows.
bubba
PS dunno if Works had a DOS version.
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Wordstar was a DOS app before it died a valiant death
Yes HowdyBubba full fledged feature rich word processor that in its original version included feature rich desktop publishing and extensive image manupulation capabilities
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YES qec99! Very good!
Lotus did not make it. They bought it outright when they found themselves lacking a word processor. Samna made it.
Its now called WordPro
I still use Version 3 (before Lotus bought it) all the time
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I suppose so.
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edit: weeeee now I can go to sleep.
[This message has been edited by qec99 (edited 03-03-2001).]
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Thanks guys!
That was fun!!
I will try do dig something harder up next time!!
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Yes, it was fun. Now I'm headed to bed.
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Me too
Goodnight all!
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Thanks for the quiz PCSolutions,
til next time,
bubba
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Ask a question in the middle of the night and have it answered 'fore a person gets up. Just don't have a chance. Danged it. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ Good question. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Ain't that the truth? https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
How about another?
What was the first character-based word processor for the IBM/PC and Apple II?
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I want to say that was Wordstar
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was it PFS Write?
just a guess...dredging up gunk from the bottom of my brain https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Vernon.. Can you give us a hint?????????
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Go back to school loser, you will never fix me..HAHA sucker.
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I know but I am disqualifying myself
I will give you a few hints
1 You cant get it anymore
2 No one uses it or has used it for years
3 If you have it on diskette in your archives the disks probably dont work anymore
How is that? Wasnt that helpful?
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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PC, that sounds like about half of the crap over 2years old..hehe
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Exactly Dodge!
This is all soo much fun though https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Well heres one for ya. I dont even know the anser to this one...
When was the first computer made, and by whom.. And I dont mean the first PC...
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Depends on what you mean by computer. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
Somewhere around 500 B.C. the bead-and-wire abacus, used for adding and subtracting large numbers, was invented in Egypt.
In 1896 Herman Hollerith started the Tabulating Machine Co., essentially the world's first computer company.
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Hint for my question: Easy Rider
(Note: Using nothing more than what I've provided so far and you'll end up with but a single hit on two of the most popular search sites).
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Vernon, I give up.. I have killed Excite and google search engines today trying to find an answer. So call me a loser. I'm out.......JJ
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dodge,
I would guess the first "programable" computer was Colossus, which was developed around 1943 by the British governmnet to decypher the German Enigma codes.
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compliments of "Allthe web"
Konrad Zuse was born on June 22, 1910 in Berlin. He is known as the creator of the first functioning, freely programable, and fully automatic computer. Konrad Zuse studied construction engineering in Berlin. Tired of repeating calculating proceedures he built the first mechanical computer, the Z1. Then he developed from waste material, together with a few friends, in his living room of his parents, the worlds first electronic, programable calculator, the Z3. Another extrodinary acheivement is the creation of the first algorithmic programmming language "Plankalkul" in 1945. Unfortunately the German government considered his projects unimportant during the war efforts. Therefore he was never able to improve his work. He died on December 18, 1995. He was responsible in completely new thinking in the field of computers. http://www.rmc.edu/~bburrell/bcmiller/Kzuse.htm
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Please post back.
Thanks, Poppy.
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More trivial questions coming up this Friday eve sometime. I have a list LOL!
Until then I am closing this thread
This was fun. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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