This episode features GT Estate Word Processor released in 1983 by Indus Systems.

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GT Estate Word Processor in ActionBooting

• Editing

• Empty editor screen with ~28K document space available in addition to a 4K copy buffer.

• The cursor never advances past column 20. All text scrolls off the left side as text progresses on the line.
• Reading (or loading) a document from disk. This is the sample document formatted for the Epson MX80 printer.
• Using the formatter to print the document.
• Writing (or saving) the document to a new file on disk. All drives supported by your DOS are supported by the word processor.
• Opening the copy buffer to copy a block of text. Note BO in the upper right.
• Its copied. Note OK in the upper right.

• A bunch of long lines copied using almost 20K of space. Navigation is a bit slow with this many long lines. Errors

• Files

• Print OutputSample letter for Epson MX80 printed to Epson FX80 printer:

S7E05-prt-SampleMXDownloadShow Links* Atari Mania entry: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-gt-estate-word-processor_29771.html * Manual @ Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/GTEstateWordProcessor * Quick Reference Card @ Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/gtestatewordprocessorquickreferencecardindussystems

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.