Editing WordStar (section)

===Founding===
[[Seymour I. Rubinstein]] was an employee of early microcomputer company [[IMSAI]], where he negotiated software contracts with [[Digital Research]] and [[Microsoft]]. After leaving IMSAI, Rubinstein planned to start his own software company that would sell through the new network of retail computer stores. He founded [[MicroPro International|MicroPro International Corporation]] in September 1978 and hired John Robbins Barnaby as programmer, who wrote a [[word processor]], WordMaster, and a sorting program, SuperSort, in [[Intel 8080]] [[assembly language]]. After Rubinstein obtained a report that discussed the abilities of contemporary standalone word processors from [[IBM]], [[Xerox]], and [[Wang Laboratories]], Barnaby enhanced WordMaster with similar features and support for the [[CP/M]] operating system. MicroPro began selling the product, now renamed '''WordStar''', in June 1979.<ref name="bergin2006">{{cite journal | title=The Origins of Word Processing Software for Personal Computers: 1976-1985 | author=Bergin, Thomas J. | journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing |date=Oct–Dec 2006 | volume=28 | issue=4 | pages=32–47 | doi=10.1109/MAHC.2006.76| s2cid=18895790 }}</ref> Priced at {{US$|long=no|495}} and {{US$|long=no|40}} for the manual,<ref name="wordstar198001">{{Cite magazine |date=January 1980 |title=Word-Star |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-01#page/n49/mode/2up |magazine=BYTE |type=advertisement |page=49}}</ref> by early 1980, MicroPro said in advertisements that 5,000 people had purchased WordStar in eight months.<ref name="byte198509">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1985-09/1985_09_BYTE_10-09_Homebrewing#page/n181/mode/2up | title=A Microcomputing Timeline | work=BYTE | date=September 1985 | access-date=October 27, 2013 |author1=Williams, Gregg |author2=Welch, Mark |author3=Avis, Paul | pages=198}}</ref>