[untenured]

Terrific story, one of many I’ve seen from you on FR over the years. If you collected them and sold them, I’d buy them.

“kept reaching for the white-out”

One of the most underrated inventions for its time. I used a lot since I typed a lot in HS but was (and remain) unsalvageably hunt-and-peck. Invented by the mother of one of The Monkees IIRC. (As I was typing this, I discovered that my iPad flags “Monkees” as a misspelling.)

When I started as a professor, I asked one of my new colleagues if he knew he anyplace nearby where I could buy a grade book. He scoffed at me (he was the department rep to the university technology committee and plenty proud of it) and said he used a “spreadsheet.” I thus took up Quattro Pro, but it seems to have vanished into the ether.

[SamAdams76]

Thanks! I do intend to pull my stories together at some point and publish them online. This will be my retirement hobby!

[TChad]

I thus took up Quattro Pro, but it seems to have vanished into the ether.

Word Perfect Office is still sold, mostly to lawyers, but the most recent version released is from 2021.

https://www.wordperfect.com/en/product/wordperfect/

I wrote plenty of macro code for Quattro Pro.