Re: What was your first word-processor?

[Mike Ching <kulasoft@pixi.com>]

Jorn Barger wrote:
>  
> To jog your memories, here's a rough timeline of micro word
> processing from 1976 thru 1985 (corrections appreciated), followed by
> a partial inventory of wp names for various micro platforms (Apple,
> Atari, C64, IBM, etc):
> 
> 1976: Michael Shrayer's Electric Pencil for Altair (1975)
> 1978? Word Pro 1.1, a very slow, tape-driven line-editor for CBM Pet
> 1978: MicroPro introduces WordMaster (CP/M?) by Rob Barnaby
> 1979: MicroPro's WordStar for CP/M, by Rob Barnaby
> 1979: Apple Computer releases Paul Lutus's AppleWriter 1.0 for Apple2
> 1980: Mark of the Unicorn's Mince (PerfectWriter/FinalWord) for IBM,
> CP/M
> 1980?: EasyWriter for Apple?
> 1981?: EasyWriter by Capt Crunch/ John Draper for IBM
> 1981?: Applewriter 2

...

Yeah, I remember AppleWriter 1, working in 40-columns and all upper
case.  Those were the days.

For those who missed it, the story of Cap'n Crunch's creation of
Easy Writer is at

  http://www.vcomm.net/~crunch/ibmstory/

- mike 
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