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Word Processor Pac
The Word Processor Pac was the Sorcerer’s ‘killer app’, it
contained a cartridge based version of the popular CP/M word
processor Spellbinder by Lexisoft for only $199. This was
an amazing deal for Sorcerer customers as most word processors
of the time were disk based, expensive, and required extra
hardware. Spellbinder was a fairly competent and polished
word processor with a variety of features that suited both home
and business users. Files could either be stored to tape
or disk (with the S-100 expansion) or printed out to one of the
many printers that were available at the time.
Interestingly the list of changes in version 1.1 of the Sorcerer
Monitor program mentions a bug that caused a vertical tab
instead of a horizontal tab when the tab key was used with lower
case letters. This bug was specifically not fixed because
it would break the Word Processor Pac. Another bug in the
original 1.0 Monitor caused the keyboard scan routine to reset
the serial port speed, this did not affect the Word Processor
Pac because it used its own keyboard routine.
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