I installed WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows, but found it not nearly as convenient for my purposes, nor as easy on the eyes. WordPerfect 5.1 started crashing repeatedly. Some of my old programs wouldn't even run any more and had to be discarded. My computer guru explained that this was because it had so many more programs with so many more elaborate features - programs and features that I never used. Since a 486 had been so much faster than a 386 or a 286 - I tried to forget that I had ever used an 8088 - my expectation was that everything would also go faster and better with a Pentium. I bought a Pentium computer with Windows 95. I tempted the gods by trying to go too far. Like a mythical character in an old fable, I did not know when to leave well enough alone. Never before had I been so satisfied - and never again. This was the high-water mark of my relationship with computers. When I went to another city, I would just install that city's map for the duration of the trip. Even on my laptop, there was enough hard disk space for a few key cities to be permanently stored. There was so much storage space on the hard disk that I could install street maps for a couple of dozen cities in my desktop.
All you had to do was type in the names of the cities and it told you the rest. There was a corresponding highway map program that showed you how to get from one city to another. I loved a street map program that enabled me to simply type in an address and get a map showing where that address was located. You could keep typing right through it because you couldn't type fast enough to interfere with it.īy now I was discovering that you could do more than word-processing with computers. When I used my word-processing program - WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS - its timed backups took place so fast that you could barely see the "please wait" notice before it was gone.
When I turned on the computer, Windows 3.1 flashed onto the screen immediately. Programs that took half an hour to install before could now be installed in 10 minutes. Just when I thought technology had reached its limit, the 486 computer came out and I got a desktop and then a laptop. Eventually, I leap-frogged up to a 386 desktop computer, which seemed incredibly fast.
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