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effzehkoelle@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a USB key

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Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a USB key

www.theregister.com

effzehkoelle@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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: Reg hack pines for simpler times, then tries to recapture them
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    I keep a Windows 2000 machine with Office 97 for distraction-free writing, but I might try this. WordPerfect for DOS was always a pretty relaxing way to write.

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      ‘97 was peak MS Office!

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        Yep, for some of us Clippy never went anywhere.

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        1997 was peak for lots of things

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          It’s true. I remember it fondly as a very optimistic year.

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