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DanBC on March 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Ugliest Sign in America

To be fair Neuromancer was published in 1984 so computers and word processing was weird and clunky and expensive.

bitwize on March 21, 2015 [–]

Many journalists and authors still swear by WordStar -- among them George R.R. Martin. 1980s word processing was in some ways more straightforward than the Word of today.

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