Editing PC-Write (section)

{{Short description|Early word processing shareware}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = PC-Write
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| screenshot             = Abc-write greek.png
| caption                = Intro screen of PC-Write version 2.5 translated in Greek. PC-Write was the de facto word processor in many branches of the Greek public sector during the early 1990s. Other versions presented a blue screen and white letters. Character matching on later versions used other colors, such as magenta, cyan, etc.
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| author                 = [[Bob Wallace (computer scientist)|Bob Wallace]]
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| released               = early {{Start date and age|1983}}
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| operating system       = [[DOS]]
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| genre                  = [[Word processor]]
| license                = [[Shareware]]
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'''PC-Write''' was a computer [[word processor]] and was one of the first three widely popular [[software]] products sold via the [[marketing]] method that became known as [[shareware]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://paulspicks.com/help/history_of_shareware.aspx | title = The History of Shareware | last = Callahan | first = Michael E. | publisher = Paul's Picks | accessdate = 2008-05-13 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100428064443/http://paulspicks.com/help/history_of_shareware.aspx | archivedate = 2010-04-28 }}</ref> It was originally written by [[Bob Wallace (computer scientist)|Bob Wallace]] in early 1983.<ref name = "InfoWorld Sep 1983">{{cite magazine | last = Markoff | first = John | title = Word-processing package costs $10 under new marketing scheme |magazine= InfoWorld | volume = 5 | issue = 3 | page =3 | date = September 19, 1983 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1y8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA3 | issn = 0199-6649
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