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| Developer(s) | Michael Shrayer (b. 1934 – d. 2006)[1] |
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| Initial release | 1976 |
| Operating system | MITS Altair, Sol-20, TRS-80, IBM PC |
| Type | Word processor |
Electric Pencil, released in December 1976 by Michael Shrayer, was the first word processor program for home computers.
Despite its initial market dominance, alternatives like WordStar and Magic Wand surpassed its popularity some time later.
- ^ Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014.