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Homeword
[edit]No mention here of Sierra Online Inc's Homeword word processor. Homeword ran on Apple DOS (apple ][+, //e, //c) - and there is also Homeword Plus which ran on ProDos on the Apple //e and //c
I believe there was a Homeword for the IBM PC and Atari PC's too.
Some refs:
Atari: https://archive.org/details/HomewordReferenceCard
ProDos Homeword Plus: https://archive.org/details/apple_2_homewordplus
IBM: https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2014/08/homeword-sierra-onlines-easy-to-use.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.10.32.25 (talk) 16:27, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
Declaring peripheral COI
[edit]I've just added (in this diff) a few details about the fate of Sierra's original Oakhurst office. The source is effectively an opinion piece by an ex-employee, hardly a reliable source but marginally better than the nothing we had before. But it could use a better source.
That's not the reason I'm posting, though. Back in 1998 I was an employee of Cendant Corporation, the company Sierra had then-recently been acquired by, for a few months. (Literally... 7 months, to be precise.) Honestly I don't remember even being aware at the time that Sierra was a Cendant subsidiary, and I certainly possess neither allegiance to, nor inside knowledge of, either Sierra or Cendant — then or since — in any way that would influence my contributions. Still, in the interest of complete transparency I felt it best to make this declaration. In the same vein, I have placed a {{connected contributor}}
notice at the top of this page. -- FeRDNYC (talk) 10:25, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- I would think that any contributions you make aren't going to a serious COI issue, given the distances in both time and your relative position then, but its good to at least declare it. I would not worry about it too much, and thus encourage you to continue to contribute. --Masem (t) 12:54, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Masem: Thanks! Well, as you can see it didn't exactly deter me from editing, LOL. Nor do I imagine it will in the future... unless some sort of actual conflict arises, though I can't imagine how/what that could possibly be. But I made the declaration intending it as a statement pretty much to that effect: I'm aware of the possibility, however remote it may be, and will be sure to first consider possible COI before submitting any edits to the article. -- FeRDNYC (talk) 09:40, 9 August 2021 (UTC)