Serious / Word Processing · 1982

Bank Street Writer

Published by Brøderbund Software · Developed by Intentional Educations, Inc.

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Information

Genre: Word Processing
Language: Machine Language
Controls: Keyboard
Players: 1
Programmer(s): Olson, Charles Jr.
Cover Artist(s): McDonel, Phil
Year: 1982
Publisher: Brøderbund Software
Developer: Intentional Educations, Inc.
Country: USA
License: Commercial
Medium: Disk
Rarity: 7
Serial: ATDSK-81

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 8.7/10 · Votes: 7 · Downloads: 1,683 · Hits: 12,692

Screenshots (3)

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Cover Art (3)

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Ads (1)

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Comments (1)

Jim Kuchera — 4 Apr 2007
Bank Street Writer is simply a perfect word processor under the limitations of a 40 column screen on the Atari 8-bit. I still use it, and have an original disk that continues to run after all these years. The program is so intuitive that it's learned in five minutes. I like the old ASCI character set (white against a blue background). When I finally came into the IBM PC world, I bought a copy of IBM Writing Assistant. It has strong connections to Bank Street Writer. To this day, I dislike MS Word, which is a memory hog. Remember, in my opinion, a word processor is simply a typewriter on screen. Simplicity and elegance is hard to beat by porking up your program. Yes, and I still like Wheaties and Kellogg's Corn Flakes. I'm stuck in the past. I like it there. And I'm not alone.