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.
Supplement Scans
Advertisement (Retail) from 1983:
Advertisement for the Scholastic version from 1983:
Bank Street Writer in Action
- Take out the cartridge!
- Not enough memory!
- Memory is running low.
- Memory is full!
Editor with some basic formatting shown:
- On the Atari 8 bit.
- On the Apple II.
Retreiving a file from disk:
- Ooops! Error! File does not exist.
- Password protecting your document!
- Ooops! Error!
- Aw. Disk is full!
Bank Street Utility Program
- Booting
- Menu. Display Passwords? Thats not very secure!
- Save changes?
- Looking at files and their passwords. Why have a password option?
- So insecure and easily bypassed. Dont use the password option!
- Changing the screen color.
The tutorial is rather extensive and is aimed at the beginner, as it the entire program:
Files
Viewing the contents of a file from SpartaDOS, and Atari DOS 2.5:
- Saved with a password, but not encrypted.
- Looking at the file with T:Edit.
- Files on the program 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.htmlWiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Street_WriterInternet 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=ManualsBank Street College: https://www.bankstreet.eduBank 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=onTech & Learning: https://www.techlearning.comTech & Learning May 2005: http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsnabout/history/t&lmag_25thannivreport2_may05.pdfAtariAge ST Informer Scanning Post: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/288486-st-informer-magazines-for-archiving/#entry4224612Intro 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.
