
Honestly, Writing Assistant was a pretty good, if basic, word processor. While I had used a computer before we the Junior, I'm almost positive that I had my first experience with a word processor on that Junior, and it was Writing Assistant.

Our PCjr came with a copy a word processor called IBM Writing Assistant. I was introduced to the early online world of BBSes using its slow - even for the time - 300 baud modem. I learned a little about Assembly Language. I learned to program in BASIC and Turbo Pascal on the Junior. It's not really an exaggeration to say that it launched my career. the Junior was and continues to be the brunt of many a joke.īut I learned a LOT on that PCjr. Sometime around 1985, I got my first personal computer, an IBM PCjr.

MEMORIES LIMITED TO 640KB - IBM WRITING ASSISTANT
