Electric Pencil for Altair?
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Electric Pencil for Altair?
I'm wondering if a copy of the first word processor "Electric Pencil" for Altair 8800 has survived and is available for download?
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Re: Electric Pencil for Altair?
I know of a copy that runs on the Sol-20 or a Subsystem B card set. I’ll have to do so more digging to see if I can find an Altair version.
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Re: Electric Pencil for Altair?
Unfortunately the Altair Word Processing “manual” is more of an advertising brochure than an actual user’smanual. I’m not sure it was ever distributed. I believe the plan was to create AWP from QTYPE. You can play with QTYPE in Altair MiniDisk version at https://altairclone.com/downloads/minidisk/BASIC/.
Here also is a an ALTAIR 8” disk image with WordStar: https://altairclone.com/downloads/cpm/C ... /WordStar/
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Here also is a an ALTAIR 8” disk image with WordStar: https://altairclone.com/downloads/cpm/C ... /WordStar/
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Re: Electric Pencil for Altair?
I love WordStar. The menu system was great for its time and make basic editing easy. Both WordStar 3 and WordStar 4 will run on the Altair. Disk images for both are available in the thread linked below.
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