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  • S2E20 Atari The Bookkeeper – Supplement

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/inverseatascii-s2e20-atari_thebookkeeper.mp3

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    This episode features The Bookkeeper, originally released in 1982 by Atari.

    Box and Supplement Scans

    Scan of the front of the box:

     

    Scan of the back of the box:

     

    The Bookkeeper in Action
    Booting

     

    Main Menu

    The main menu before Start Up has been completed.  Note company code is XXXXXX:

     

    Entering an invalid code:

     

    Main menu after Start Up has been completed.  Note Company Code is valid:

     

    Start-Up

    The start up menu options are purple.

    Menu:

     

    Edit Company Code:

     

    Edit As Of Date (note it is not Y2K compliant, you must use a day compatible year):

     

    Edit ID Line:

     

    Data Entry

    The Data Entry screens are all dark blue.

    Once the program loads, you are prompted to insert your data disk:

     

    Menu

     

    Enter Checks Written

    Enter checks in batches up to 50:

     

    And make sure data disk is in drive and formatted:

     

    Enter Cash Received

    Enter cash received in batches up to 50 as well:

     

    Enter Invoices Written

    Enter invoices written in batches up to 50 as well:

     

    Enter General Journal:

     

    Errors

    If an error occurs, it is handled well:

     

    Maintenance

    The maintenance screens are all light blue.

    Menu

     

    Add, Change, Delete GL Accounts

    A submenu of 5 options is used to control which function to perform:

     

    Submenu 1 (Display GL Account):

     

    Submenu 2 (Change GL Account):

     

    Submenu 3 (Add GL Accounts):

     

    Submenu 4 (Delete GL Account):

     

    Submenu 5 (Scroll GL Accounts):

     

    Add, Change Control Information

     

    Add, Change, Delete Customers

    Works much like Add, Change, Delete GL Accounts.

     

    Add, Change, Delete Vendors

    Works much like Add, Change, Delete GL Accounts.

     

    Add, Change Invoice Prompts

    These are the journal entries that will be prompted during invoice creation:

     

    Reporting

    The reporting menu is much like the main program (data entry) menu, though uses slightly different color scheme.  Note that each function across the main program and the reporting program each has a unique color.

    Loading

    When choosing the reporting menu from the data entry (main) program, it must be loaded from disk and that means a disk swap:

     

    Menu

     

    List Journals

     

    Recording And Period Processing

    Menu:

     

    61 – Recording:

     

    81 – End Of Month:

     

    82 – End Of Fiscal Year:

     

    Print Lists

    Menu:

     

    Data Entry

    This takes you back to the data entry (main) program.  Swap the disks to proceed:

     

    Files
    Contents

    The Bookkeeper appears to use Atari DOS 2.0.  The files are shown in the screenshot below:

     

    Printing

    Checks Written:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-41-51.pdf

    Cash Received:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-41-52.pdf

    Invoices Written:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-41-53.pdf

    General Journal:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-41-54.pdf

    General Ledger:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-42-61.pdf

    Profit and Loss Statement:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-42-71.pdf

    Trial Balance:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-42-72.pdf

    Balance Sheet:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-42-73.pdf

    General Ledger Account List:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-43-91.pdf

    Customer (Numeric) List:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-43-92.pdf

    Customer (Alphabetic) List:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-43-93.pdf

    Vendor (Numeric) List:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-43-94.pdf

    Vendor (Alphabetic) List:

    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e20-prt-2-43-95.pdf

     

    Instructions

    A scanned copy of the manual is available on AtariMania and other web sources.

     

    Show Links:
    • Atari Mania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-bookkeeper-_s14176.html

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      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.
      35 min
    • S2E19 CSS Rich Man’s 80 Column Word Processor

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      This episode features Rich Man’s 80 Column Word Processor, originally released in 1985 by Computer Software Services (CSS).  It was written by Mark Rogalski.

      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.
      51 min
    • S2E19 CSS Rich Man’s 80 Column Word Processor – Supplement

      https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/inverseatascii-s2e19-css_richmans80columnwordprocessor.mp3

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      This episode features Rich Man’s 80 Column Word Processor, originally released in 1985 by Computer Software Services (CSS).  It was written by Mark Rogalski.

      Supplement Scans

      Unknown packaging and no scans or pictures available.

       

      RM80CWP in Action
      Booting

      The program requires 52K of memory, so an XL or XE is needed.   XL and XE computers should boot side B first.  This is the error if there is not enough memory present, or if you boot side A directly on an XL or XE:

       

      XL and XE boot, side B complete:

       

      Main Menu:

       

      Functions

      Edit

      Create takes you to the editor.

      This is the editor with the sample file loaded, captured via emulated Atari 800XL (without emulated artifacts):

       

       

      Composite output video captured from physical Atari 130XE.  The artifacts appear worse on the capture device than on an actual display device:

       

      S-Video output video captured from physical Atari 130XE.  The output from the capture device here are very very close to the actual display device (stay away from composite out):

       

      This will work from Atari 400 and 800 computers with 48K, only if CSS “The Impossible” is installed to yield 52K free:

       

      Load

      Simply enter the filename.  If there is a document in memory, you are prompted to overwrite:

       

      Save

      Enter the filename to save as:

       

      Confirm overwrite if file already exists:

       

      View

      View the formatted output before printing.  This is an estimate and only shows 77 columns:

       

      Print

      Normally the output just goes to the printer, unless there is an error:

       

      Alternate Output

      Enter the filename to print to:

       

      The output is formatted and sent to the file in plain ASCII:

       

       

      Give Memory Statistics

      This gives some statistics about the text.  It shows the bytes used, bytes free, number of words in file, and number of lines in file:

       

      Dir 1 to 4

      Press the number of the drive you want a directory of:

       

      Delete

      Enter the name of the file you want to delete, and confirm:

       

      Rename

      Enter source file name, followed by new (destination) file name:

       

      Init

      Initializing a disk.  Specify which drive and confirm:

       

      Help

      The help screen is displayed nicely:

       

       

      Files
      Contents

      RM80CWP appears to use Atari DOS 2.0.  The disk is heavily copy protected.  The number of free sectors is a lie.  The contents of the disk can be seen in this screenshot:

      The files are:

      • DOS.SYS is Atari DOS.
      • DRIVECRE.ATE is the program used to create a print driver configuration (CDS file).  There are 3 sectors reserved for it on the disk.
      • AUTORUN.SYS is the program file.
      • EXAMPLE.TXT is the sample text file.

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        Printing

        Sample file output on Epson:

        https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e19-prt-print.pdf

        Instructions

        Scanned Quick Reference Card:

        https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/richmansquikrefcard.pdf

        Show Links:
        • New Life Electronics CSS History: http://www.nleaudio.com/css/products/history.htm
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          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.
          51 min
        • S2E18 Antic Publishing The Family Tree

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          This episode features The Family Tree, originally released in 1983 by Antic Publishing.  It was developed by Harry Koons.

          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.
          24 min
        • S2E18 Antic Publishing The Family Tree – Supplement

          https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/inverseatascii-s2e18-antic_thefamilytree.mp3

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          This episode features The Family Tree, originally released in 1983 by Antic Publishing.  It was developed by Harry Koons.

           

          Supplement Scans

          Advertisement from Antic’s “The Catalog” insert located in the March 1988 issue of Antic magazine:

           

          The Family Tree in Action

          At boot …

           

          After the first program load, you need to insert the data disk.  Make sure its either been used before, or if it’s blank make sure it’s formatted:

           

          After the data disk is loaded, the bottom of the tree is displayed.  In this case, an empty data set:

           

          Defining the bottom most person or “acorn”.  Acorn is a term I dubbed for the nodes in the tree, and not endorsed by the manual.  This is who the tree is for:

           

          Add Person

          Defining the father (or any person for that matter) is a four step process:

           

          Exit

          This is the only way to save:

           

          Extended Generation Edit

          Moving one of the grandparent “acorns” to the base to work on further extensions of the tree:

           

          Display Information

          Displaying data for a person (or “acorn”).  Repeat this four times to see all data:

           

          Print Tree

          Printing from any of the three print commands.  Each command is for a specific printer:

           

          Documentation

          The boot screen for the documentation:

           

          Choose to print to screen or printer:

           

          Printing documentation to the printer:

           

          Displaying documentation to the screen:

           

          Error

          Oops!  An error (in this case unrecoverable due to unformatted disk):

           

           

          Files
          Contents

          The Family Tree uses Atari DOS 2.0.  The contents of the disk can be seen in this screenshot:

          The files are:

          • DOS.SYS is Atari DOS 2.0s.
          • DUP.SYS is Atari DOS interface.
          • AUTORUN.SYS is the autoloader for the BASIC program file TREE.
          • TREE.PIC is the tree picture used as the interface.
          • A1.DAT is a data file that has the authors family tree present.

            • On a new empty data disk, only the data files are present:

             

            Dump of the custom data file created for reviewing:

             

            Printing

            Print for Atari printer using 10 CPI:

            https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e18-prt-atari10.pdf

            Print for Atari printer using proportional font:

            https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e18-prt-atariprop.pdf

            Print for Epson printer using 10 CPI:

            https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e18-prt-epson10.pdf

            Print 4 generations for Epson printer:

            https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e18-prt-epson10gen4.pdf

            Documentation:

            https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2e18-prt-doc.pdf

            Show Links:
            • Inverse ATASCII Atari AtariWriter: https://inverseatascii.info/2015/09/24/s2e01-atari-atariwriter/
            • Inverse ATASCII VisiCorp VisiCalc: https://inverseatascii.info/2015/01/13/s1e8-visicalc/
            • Atari Mania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-family-tree-_18534.html
            • Marty McFly Jr. family tree: http://www.thefullwiki.org/Marty_McFly,_Jr.
            • Antic Podcast interview: http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-152-art-prag-mapware-starware-and-astrology
            • Antic Magazine archive: http://www.atarimagazines.com
            • Antic Magazine @ Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/antic-magazine

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              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.
              24 min
            • S2EB3 Hi Tech Expressions AwardWare

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              This episode features AwardWare, originally released in 1986 by Hi Tech Expressions.

              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.
              31 min
            • S2EB3 Hi Tech Expressions AwardWare – Supplement

              https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/inverseatascii-s2eb3-hitechexpressions_awardware.mp3

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              This episode features AwardWare, originally released in 1986 by Hi Tech Expressions.  It was developed by VENDOR.

              Box and Supplement Scans

              Scan of the front of the box:

               

              Scan of the back of the box:

               

              Target price tag carefully taped on the inside of the box back:

               

              AwardWare in Action

              There are two boot splashes.  Both are animated.  The first fires segments of the AwardWare logo from the left and right launchers:

               

              The second does a pixel fade from left to right, starting with a solid box, and revealing the logo:

               

              Main menu:

               

              Printer Setup

              Many of the printer driver files are on the graphic disk.  It must be inserted before you can execute the printer setup:

               

              Printer Setup main menu:

               

              Selecting a printer:

               

              Selecting an interface:

               

              Select Options menu:

               

              Select Options Linefeed settings:

               

              Select Options Printer Device Number settings:

               

              Select Options Trasparent (not mis-spelled) Secondary Address settings:

               

              Select Options Slot Number settings:

               

              Test Print menu:

               

              Any Character test input screen:

               

              PDCS

              Warning:

               

              PDCS menu:

               

              PDCS edit options menu:

               

              PDCS editing the BITS option:

               

              Quick Award

              Layout in the upper left.  Menu on right, currently BORDER is selected:

               

              Selecting a border to use:

               

              Selecting a graphic for the top picture:

               

              Selecting a font for the first text area:

               

              Entering the text for the first text area:

               

              Entering the text for the smaller text area below the main text area:

               

              Selecting the signature type:

               

              For the left and right signature types, you also select a seal to display:

               

              Printing

              Selecting final or draft mode output:

               

              Rendering and printing.  Renders happen in screen memory, not in a linear or observable fashion:

               

              Print again?

               

              Awards & More

              Main menu:

               

              Awards/Licenses

              Entering the template number:

               

              Selecting the element to edit (BORDER currently selected):

               

              Swapping graphic disks when using graphics from multiple disks:

               

              Letterhead

              Entering the template number:

               

              Entering the text for the text border style.  Each line is one border in order (top, bottom, left, right):

               

              Entering text for the title:

               

              Ribbons

              Selecting which template element to edit  Currently main text element selected:

               

              Entering text for main text area:

               

              Entering text for placement:

               

              Entering text for year:

               

              Award Disk

              Check out this HUGE HUGE CHEAT of a program options.  Just create the award you want and mail the disk to your friend.  Yes, that is the instruction it references in the manual.

               

              Exit

              The Exit credits screen, note the copyright is one year different than the box:

               

              Files
              Contents

              AwardWare appears to use Atari DOS 2.0s.  The contents of the disk can be seen in this screenshot:

              • DOS.SYS – Underlying DOS
              • AUTORUN.SYS – Main program
              • PDCS.OBJ, PDCS.COM – Printer Driver Construction Set – Print driver utility
              • BLOAD.OBJ – Binary load program
              • PR.COM – Print utility

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                Graphic Disk as supplied with AwardWare (not all contents can be seen):

                 

                Graphic Disk obtained via mail order (not all contents can be seen):

                 

                Guesstimates of the file types:

                • Fnn.A – Font data
                • Gnn.A – Template data
                • Xnn.A – Graphic data
                • Maa.A – Menu data
                • .A –
                • END.COM – Exit credits screen
                • Miscellaneous printer driver files

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                  Printing

                  Printer test output 576:

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-test576.pdf

                  Printer test bit pattern:

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-testbitpattern.pdf

                  Printer test character:

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-testchar.pdf

                  Printer test alternate pins:

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-1-testpin.pdf

                  Quick Award (center) (draft mode):

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddraftcenter.pdf

                  Quick Award (left) (draft mode):

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddraftleft.pdf

                  Quick Award (right) (draft mode):

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddraftright.pdf

                  Quick Award (title) (draft mode):

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawarddrafttitle.pdf

                  Quick Award “Blimey” (draft mode):

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawardblimeydraft.pdf

                  Quick Award “Blimey” (final mode):

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-2-quickawardblimeyfinal.pdf

                  Award “2016”:

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-2-award2016.pdf

                  Award (5×7 size):

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-award5x7.pdf

                  Award (template 19):

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-3-template19.pdf

                  Letterhead (with borders):

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-letterheadborders.pdf

                  Ribbon “Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast”:

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/s2eb3-prt-3-ribbon.pdf

                  Instructions

                  Scanned Manual download:

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/awardwaremanual.pdf

                  Atari Reference Sheet download:

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/awardwarereferencesheetatari.pdf

                  Commodore Reference Sheet download:

                  https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/awardwarereferencesheetcommodore.pdf

                   

                  Show Links:
                  • Inverse ATASCII AwardWare Video demonstration: https://youtu.be/0aVdGKKYS6A
                  • Inverse ATASCII S2EB1 Hi Tech Expressions JingleDisk: https://inverseatascii.info/2015/12/14/s2eb1-hi-tech-expressions-jingledisk/
                  • Inverse ATASCII S2EB2 Hi Tech Expressions HeartWare: https://inverseatascii.info/2016/02/12/s2eb2-hi-tech-expressions-heartware/
                  • Atari Mania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-awardware_12535.html
                  • Old English font: http://www.dafont.com/olde-english.font

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                    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.
                    31 min
                  • S2E17 Atari Biorhythm

                    Podcast: Download

                    This episode features Biorhythm, originally released in 1980 by Atari.

                    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.
                    21 min
                  • S2E17 Atari Biorhythm – Supplement

                    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/inverseatascii-s2e17-atari_biorhythm.mp3

                    Podcast: Download

                     

                    This episode features Biorhythm, originally released in 1980 by Atari.

                     

                    Box and Supplement Scans

                    Scan of the front of the box (the one I fixed until my patience wore out):

                     

                    Scan of the front of the box (courtesy of Darren Doyle):

                     

                    Biorhythm in Action

                    Boot splash:

                     

                    Menu

                    This title only has the following menu options which are to ask if you want instructions, and if you want a hardcopy:

                     

                    8K Version

                    Instructions:

                     

                    Loading main program:

                     

                    Output to screen, or screen and printer:

                     

                    Entering the birth date:

                     

                    Entering the desired month and year:

                     

                    The plotting has started.  A small blip tone is made as each day is displayed:

                     

                    The completed month.  Notice you only see the last 15 days plotted at any given time:

                     

                    16K Version

                    Instructions:

                     

                    Loading the main program:

                     

                    Entering your name:

                     

                    Output to screen only, or screen and printer:

                     

                    Entering your birth date:

                     

                    Entering the desired date range:

                     

                    Uh oh, too bad.  This title is not Y2K compliant.  Though this appears to be an input restriction as you can produce post 1999 content with the 8K version:

                     

                    The plot has started.  Like the 8K version, a short blip tone is made as each day is displayed:

                     

                    The plot is complete:

                     

                    Comparison

                    Atari Biorhythm output for comparison purposes:

                    https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-cmp-040170-032016-ab.pdf

                     

                    Web based output for comparison purposes:

                     

                    Output from both aligned for comparison purposes.  The plots are the same:

                     

                    Files

                    As a cassette program there are no files.  I converted both to SAV and LST formats, and have provided a DOS 2 diskette with the files.  You can download it from the links below.  The contents of my disk are:

                    • BIO8K.SAV – 8K version in SAVe format.
                    • BIO8K.LST – 8K version in LiST format.
                    • BIO16K.SAV – 16K version in SAVe format.
                    • BIO16K.LST – 16K version in LiST format.

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                      Printing

                      8K instructions:

                      https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-prt-8-1-inst.pdf

                      8K month plot:

                      https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-prt-8-2-month.pdf

                      16K instructions:

                      https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-prt-16-1-inst.pdf

                      16K month plot:

                      https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-prt-16-2-month.pdf

                      16K year plot:

                      https://inverseatascii.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s2e17-prt-16-2-year.pdf

                       

                      Show Links:
                      • Atari Mania: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-biorhythm_12428.html
                      • Atari Wiki: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari%20Biorhythm
                      • Biorhythm Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorhythm
                      • Biorhythm Calculator: http://www.biorhythm-calculator.net/default.aspx
                      • Casio Biolator: http://www.casio-calculator.com/Museum/Pages/BBB/Biolator%20(H-801)%20Life%20Cycle/Casio%20Biolator%20(H-801)%20Life%20Cycle%20Edition.html
                      • Compunetic Arcade Machine: http://www.retroland.com/biorhythm-machines/

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                        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.
                        21 min
                      • S2E16 Allen Macroware PrintWiz

                        Podcast: Download

                        This episode features PrintWiz, originally released in 1983 by Allen Macroware.  It was developed by Jerry Allen.

                        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.
                        27 min