David's Computer Blog

Call for Submissions: Share Your Story, Written the Retro Way! Are you a writer who loves vintage technology?  Do you enjoy the charm of classic word processors?  Do you have a new retro Amiga keyboard that you''re wanting to use? Retro Words, Timeless Stories is an online short story exhibition where every entry must be created using a retro word processor  on vintage Commodore computers (be it real or emulated) such as  AmigaWriter, WordPerfect, ProWrite, Final Writer, Wordworth, Personal Write, or any classic software of your choice that ran on a Commodore 64/128/Amiga computer! This is more than a writing challenge—it’s an opportunity to blend nostalgia with creativity , bringing vintage digital tools back to life in a modern storytelling space. It's also an opportunity to use your new or old Amiga-based keyboard! These vintage tools provided a focused and tactile writing experience, free from modern-day distractions. Now, in this online exhibition , we celebra...

So in relation to me looking for old Word Processor applications, I started thinking and trying to determine the core reason or reasons that caused me to like old word processors.  After giving it considerable thought, I started to conclude that maybe is was, oddly enough, the font used in the old word processors that actually caused me to like the old word processors. Trying to find a font that is nostalgic to me. Some times one simply cannot get away from the things of old. And the things of old seem to be comforting, for some odd reason.  So I started looking around the Internet for fonts. Since I started word processing with WordPerfect 4.3 way back in 1990 or so, I started there. WordPerfect 4.3 was a MS-DOS based application, so all of the typing was done in a MS-DOS interface with whatever font was used in MS-DOS.  Searching the Internet for the MS-DOS font eventually landed me with a font named, " Code Page 437 ."  Font names commonly associated with and simi...