Everything about WordStar

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: WordStarA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: WordStar promptThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Interfacing CDS/ISIS with WordStar: ICIMOD's experienceCited 4 times
4. Go sideways: IBM Common User AccessA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Sprint (word processor)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Interfacing CDS/ISIS with WordStar: ICIMOD's experience

  Anwar Ali Chaudhry · 1989 · Program · 4 citations

• Recollections: The Rise and Fall of WordStar

  Seymour Rubinstein · 2006 · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 2 citations

• Using standard software for small‐scale library projects: experience at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic with WordStar and dBase II

  Catherine E. Hare, Ian R. Winship · 1986 · Program · 1 citations

• Use Wordstar In Thirty Minutes with Executive Guide to Word Startm

  · 1982 · IEEE Micro · 0 citations

• PC software review WordStar 2000 Release 2

  Liz Inman · 1986 · Health Policy and Planning · 0 citations

• Book Reviews : Business Writing Using Word Processing: Apple Writer Edition. Arthur M. Segal. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1987. 131 pages. Paper. IBM Wordstar Edition, 141 pages. IBM EasyWriter Edition, 141 pages

  T. Dukes · 1988 · Journal of Business Communication · 0 citations

• Reviews : Simsova, Sylva. Librarians as readers: bibliopsychological studies 1966-1984. London, Data Help, 1987. 100 pp. Microfiche £4.00; soft disk (5¼", MS DOS, Wordstar) £5.00

  David P. Fisher · 1988 · Journal of librarianship · 0 citations

• Poem: WordStar

  · 1988 · College Composition & Communication · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕WordStar promptR. McMullan · 1984
• 📕WordStarMaddie Labinger, Jan Osborne · 1983
• Introduction to WordStarArthur Naiman · 1982
• 📕The WordStar handbookDennis P. Curtin · 1983
• 📕Using WORDSTARAlan Balfe · 1990
• WordStar made easyWalter A. Ettlin · 1981
• The best book of WordStarVincent Alfieri · 1987
• Using WordStarSteve Ditlea · 1987

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