WP5.1 gave me some fun times. I was in the Navy and transferred to a school with a month or so to kill before class started. They dropped me into a data processing office as something to do while I waited. The job was easy: read a file off a floppy, put it into the right format in WP, print it, and repeat. I discovered WP’s macro language and automated my way into a cushy job: instead of the 16 reports a day we were suppose to process, I could do about 20 an hour.

My boss was impressed, thanked me profusely, and told me to STFU about it. We’d come to work in the morning and knock out the day’s work in an hour, piddle around until lunch, then go home and enjoy the San Diego weather for the rest of the day.

That was a pretty terrific couple of months.