Digibarn Stories: Rob Barnaby and WordStar and much more (June 2008)

Digibarn Stories:
Rob Barnaby and WordStar and much more
(June 2008)

In June 2008 Rob Barnaby visited the Digibarn, first to get the grand tour and the second time to be interviewed on video by Al Lundell and Bruce Damer and to donate and demonstrate his original IMSAI PCS 80/30, the machine that WordStar was written on. Rob, thank you for giving the Digibarn a tremendous piece of the history of microcomputing. Watch Al Lundells video, listen to Rob's interviews in audio and see photos of the visit below.

Al Lundell's Video Interview with Rob Barnaby
Running WordStar on the original IMSAI it was written on

Audio interviews with Rob Barnaby

Rob Barnaby gives us the full story Interview by Bruce Damer & Al Lundell covering his life and works including WordStar and much more, 61MB MP3	Rob Barnaby tells us more while demonstrating the IMSAI PCS 80/30 and WordStar (16MB MP3)	Rob Barnaby gives his running commentary during Bruce Damer's tour of the Digibarn (61MB MP3)
A preliminary interview of Rob Barnaby by Bruce Damer (covers a lot of interesting ground, 38MB MP3)	Bruce Damer and Rob Barnaby talk about users and uses of WordStar (including Bruce's own experience, 5MB MP3 )

Photos of Rob Barnaby's Visit

Al Lundell starts the interview

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Looking at what Rob has brought

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Setting it all up

See more photos here

Live Demo!

Rob setting up the IMSAI	CIMG7749.JPG	CIMG7750.JPG	Up it comes!
The whole setup, sans printer	WordStar staring up	CIMG7771.JPG	View of menus and document
CIMG7787.JPG	IMG_0446.jpg	IMG_0450.jpg	Rob demonstrates word wrap! (or what distinguishes a word processor from a text editor)
IMG_0466.jpg	IMG_0474.jpg	Rob's resume, in WordStar!	IMG_0482.jpg
Al getting Rob on tape, in High Def	Rob with WordStar manual (which he wrote of course)	Keyboard layout for WordStar universal layout for many systems	IMG_0496.jpg