My, my, I guess that I am old! (Smile) The Commodore 8032 computer, monitor, and keyboard (combined in one unit) and the Commodore CBM 8050 disk drive (dual drive 1 MB floppies in one unit) were not listed. I suppose that the computer was driven by Commodore BASIC and the disk drives by Commodore DOS (2.5/2.721?). (I knew nothing about operating systems back then.) This was all circa 1982 and these machines were before the very poplular Commodore 64 and the later Commodore Amiga. I probably had a copy of the Commodore WordPro 2 Plus word processing program to go along with the machines (but I never used it and did not really understand it).
Back in those days basically the only personal computer choices were the various Commodore machines, the Apple II, and the Radio Shack TRS-80 --- the so-called "Trinity" as they are referred to these days. (See "personal computer history" at Wikipedia.)
I hung on to the above machines until switching to the AT&T 6300 in 1985, which by then was following the IBM pc-compatible model---but still DOS based. As for as word processors were concerned at that point I switched to WordPerfect 4.2---and trained myself very well on it and its popular successors 5.0 and 5.1, well enough to produce a high quality 32 page black and white journal/magazine/newsletter on the early HP Laserjets. (I would print one master copy on the Laserjet and then take the copies to a copy shop to be mass copied, folded and stapled.) To this day I still prefer WordPerfect over the currently more dominant word processor standard.
Finally in 1999 friends helped me to purchase one of the ubiquitous generic clone computers which is when I finally arrived at Windows, starting with version 95.
Time does move on they say. . . . (Smile)
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