My word processor progression was:

  - Electric Pencil on a TRS-80 Model 1
  - Word Writer on a C64
  - PC-Write on an IBM XT
  - WordPerfect for DOS 4.2 on a XT clone
  - Describe for OS/2
  - Lotus WordPro
  - WordPerfect for Windows
  - Microsoft Word
  - Google Docs

I went to a mostly liberal arts university and the new my freshman year, 1987, computer lab consisted of around a dozen non-networked XT clones running WP 4.2. Two of them had dot matrix printers attached and were dedicated to printing. I had my own XT clone, which made me the computer lab for my friends, but no printer so WP 4.2 was somewhat forced on me. That being said I found it to be extremely productive and is the only one I have any sort of nostalgic feeling towards. Once AT layout keyboards became the norm it was much less productive to use.

I know Microsoft Word is disliked around here, but I regularly produced complex documents hundreds of pages in length both by myself and in collaboration with others. I found it to be a good tool for doing so.

I did try Wordstar at one point but it lost out to PC-Write which used many of the same control keys.

I mostly retired a few months ago and now part time manage my fiancee's horse farm. Google Docs meets those needs.