Batteries Included (company)

Batteries Included
FoundedToronto, Ontario (1978)
Defunct1987
FatePurchased by Electronic Arts
Headquarters
Richmond Hill, Ontario
,
Canada
Key people
Alan Krofchick
Robbie Krofchik
Marcie Swartz
L. Brian Swartz
ProductsPaperClip
DEGAS

Batteries Included was a computer software and hardware company based in the Toronto area. It developed products for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.[1] The company was best known in the 1980s for its PaperClip word processor, which was available for the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64, and the DEGAS bitmap painting program for the Atari ST. Batteries Included was acquired by Electronic Arts in 1987.

  1. ^ "New Products From Batteries Included". Compute! (74): 117. 1986.