Electric Pencil, which first appeared in 1976 for the MITS Altiar, is the first word processor for home/micro computer systems. It was ported to many other systems, including the SOL-20, NothStar Horizon, and TRS-80. Eventually an enhanced/re-written version was created for the IBM PC.
It had the rudimentary features of a word processor and remained relatively primitive throughout its life. The IBM PC version makes use of some IBM PC specific abilities.
Wanted: Other ports.
Electric Pencil PC bundles Pencil Ace (an enhancement to the program), Pencil Tutor, and a Bonus disk with document templates.
Archive includes four 160k 5.25" floppy disk images.
This software does not appear to be copy protected.
Note: These disks are formatted for DOS 1.x and therefore may not open in tools like Winimage.
Minimum requirements: IBM PC with DOS 1.x, or 2.0 and 48K bytes of RAM or more. Compatible with IBM PC-DOS 1.0.
Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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Electric Pencil PC (1983) (5.25-160k) | PC (1983) | English | 23.57MB | 1 |