This episode features the Cut & Paste word processor, released in 1983 by Electronic Arts. It was programmed by Tim Mott, Steves Hayes, Norm Lane, David S Maynard, Jerry Morrison, Steve Shaw, Dan Silva.

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Advertising“We See Further” ad that featured the programmers, as carried by Antic Magazine June 1983:

Ad for EA titles from Compute! October 1984. What a bargain!:

PackagingPackage front cover:

Package back cover:

Cut & Paste in ActionBooting

• Boot splash.
• Main menu. Usage

Catalog Menu Options:

• Load, Print, Quit, Delete, Rename …
• Menu active (load selected).
• Catalog, Copy-Disk …

• Format-Disk, Drive2, Setup Setup (Display & Printer settings):

• Defaults

• Most likely want to change display width to 40. Format-Disk:

• Editing:

• Blank document. 19,443 bytes free on 64K machine.

• Some Inverse ATASCII episode notes.
• File saved and name reflected in title. Menu active, Buffer selected.
• Random Notes selected.
• First paragraph selected. Menu active, preparing to Cut.
• Paragraph cut.
• Looking at the buffer using the Buffer menu option. It contains the cut text.

• Emptied buffer. Saving:

• ‘Save options.

• Entering the name to save as.
• Selecting save.

• Saving, note the message. Loading:

• File selected, load occurring. Note message. Printing:

• Print menu (of sorts). Adjust and select output type.

• Printing. Note message. Delete:

• Rename:

• Errors (some):

• Proprietary disk format.

• Something went wrong with disk I/O.

• Disk file is write protected. FilesVTOC is moved and the disk format is unrecognizable be DOS’s I tried:

• Sample documents on the disk.

• Trying to view the disk contents in DOS. Print OutputBlank Envelope:

S7E07-prt-BlankEnvelopeDownloadBlank Letter:

S7E07-prt-BlankLetterDownloadBlank Memo:

S7E07-prt-BlankMemoDownloadBlank Outline:

S7E07-prt-BlankOutlineDownloadBlank Resume:

S7E07-prt-BlankResumeDownloadLetter Home:

S7E07-prt-LetterHomeDownloadInverse ATASCII episode notes:

S7E07-prt-IAS7E07SMDownloadShow Links* AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-cut-and-paste_29619.html * WikiPedia Cut & Paste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_%26_Paste * WikiPedia Electronic Arts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts * CyberRoach Analog Review: http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/an21/cut_and_paste.htm

Intro music is an excerpt from a chip tune by Wizwars named 8 Bit Raceway. It is used under Creative Common license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.