• tate
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, I wasn’t giving enough credit to how far back this goes. I think this version was supposed to be scanned in 2005, so I was thinking of it as a 2005 document.

    I remember how frustrating it was for my dad to maintain a list of contact info. He had many different versions and they all had different information and different omissions.

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      10 months ago

      I was only a kid so I didn’t understand how big a deal it was, but I distinctly remember “mail merge” being advertised as a ‘killer feature’ of word processing software back in the early '90s.

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        10 months ago

        Funny enough I have a pretty advanced typewriter with many word processor functions from the 90s. It has mail merge, believe it or not. I found it in front of someone’s house on large trash day and bought new ribbons for it.

        Only thing I couldn’t get to work is the floppy drive, but it is super neat watching it print out what I’ve typed on the tiny screen into two columns.