I can't remember what computer I was using in 1986 but I definitely remember using floppy discs as they were so susceptible to static charges wiping all the days from the disc!! The word processor might have been WordPerfect. I also temped as a Wang Operator in the late 80s which was more of a dedicated word processor.
Shall we all start talking in binary, or hexadecimal, or ASCII, or even octal (my favourite)?
Oh dear Stratobuddy you are sounding just like the Computer Technicians we had when I was working! I am sure they made things up just to see me go cross eyed.
I had an Amstrad 8256 in 1986, and thought it was the bees knees! It was so reliable, and though I heard lots of stories from other people about problems, mine was just fantastic, never any problems at all. Gave it away to my sister in the end when I got a more modern one, but unfortunately she butchered it.
I remember being at school around 1981 and we had 1 BBC computer which served the whole school for learning on, then they got another and it was like amazing! (in their eyes) After using the families ZX81 the spectrum was so posh.