28 Mar
2007
28 Mar
'07
12:34 p.m.
> did you know that Electric Pencil was available
on PC?
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jim Leonard wrote:
I did, and I've always wanted to try it, but I
couldn't find a copy
anywhere. Being that it has its roots on, what, Apple II? I would
imagine it would be very fast indeed.
You are probably thinking of "Easy Writer" by John ("Captain Crunch")
Draper
Electric Pencil was written by Michael Shrayer BEFORE CP/M was readily
available. One of my inspirations for writing XenoCopy was seeing ads in
the 1970s for a program to copy files from Electric Pencil diskettes to
CP/M diskettes.
It was later re-released for TRS-80.
I don't know the details, but Harv Pennington (author of "TRS-80 Disk and
Other Mysteries" and publisher of that series) was behind an IBM-PC
release.
When I was closing down, I had two shrink-wrapped copies, and a signed
one. I think that Sellam got one, another went at VCF. I don't know
where the other one is.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com