On 20 Nov 2002, r.stek wrote:
> I just picked up a manual for Michael Shrayer's Electric Pencil
> - the first WP I had on my Sol-20. But this manual is for the
> IBM PC version! I don't recall reading about this at all. Has
> anyone else come across this, and does anyone actually have a
> copy of the program? I'd love to be able to run it.
Shrayer originally wrote Electric Pencil before CP/M had become the
standard. I remember ads for it that also offered a utility program to
transfer files back and forth between "Electric Pencil disks" and CP/M.
Later, he did a version for TRS-80, that became quite popular, even though
it required adding a control key to the keyboard.
Later (around 1988 - 1992?), he cut a deal with Harv (H.C.) Pennington
("TRS-80 Disk and other mysteries") to distribute a PC version. I had a
case of them, but I may have finally sold the last one at VCF.
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Received on Sat Nov 23 2002 - 00:53:01 GMT