This episode features Bank Street Writer, originally released in 1982 by Broderbund. It was a beginners word processor. It was developed by Intentional Software, Bank Street College of Education and Franklin E. Smith, with the Atari version being credited to Charles Olson Jr.
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Supplement Scans
Advertisement (Retail) from 1983:
Bank Street Writer in Action
Booting
Boot screen:
Editing
Blank editor screen:
Main menu screen:
Memory low error:
Memory full error:
Editing text with formatting applied:
Editing on the Apple II:
Misc
Initializing a disk:
Exiting the program:
Retrieving a file from disk:
Saving a file:
Utility Program
Loading:
Menu:
Setting program defaults/configuration items:
Viewing document passwords:
Changing color:
Tutorial
Overview:
Menu:
Lesson 1 – Entering Text:
Lesson 2 – Cursor Movement:
Lesson 3 – Erase and Unerase:
Lesson 4 – Move and Moveback:
Lesson 5 – Find and Replace:
All done:
Files
Viewing the contents of a file from SpartaDOS, and Atari DOS 2.5:
Editing a file with T:Edit:
Files on program side of disk:
Files on tutorial side of disk:
Printing
I couldn’t get any correctly formatted output via emulation, thus I’m not sharing it here. I think this was an emulation issue rather than a program fault.
Show Links:
- AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-bank-street-writer_12520.html
- Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Street_Writer
- Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Bank_Street_Writer_1982_Broderbund_Disk_1_of_2
- @A8Bit Manuals: https://atari8bit.net/software/?d=c&g=Books&f=Manuals
- Bank Street College: https://www.bankstreet.edu
- Bank Street College History: https://www.bankstreet.edu/about-bank-street/history/
- Scholastic: https://www.scholastic.com/home/
- ERIC Studies: https://eric.ed.gov/?q=%22Bank+Street+Writer%22&ft=on
- Tech & Learning: https://www.techlearning.com
- Tech & Learning May 2005: http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsnabout/history/t&lmag_25thannivreport2_may05.pdf
- AtariAge ST Informer Scanning Post: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/288486-st-informer-magazines-for-archiving/#entry4224612
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