[Coco] CoCo Office suite

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Tue Nov 11 03:31:09 EST 2014


Yes, I was wracking my brain trying to remember that one!   All I could
think of was that it was from a Canadian company that might have had the
word Star in their name.  (Penpal is from Four Star Software, in Ontario.)

The VIP word processor, earlier in its lifetime, was known as Super Color
Writer.

Art

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just remembered the other "office style" programme. It was called
> PENPAL. It didn't work on the Coco3.
>
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
> On 11/11/2014 11:21 AM, Louis Ciotti wrote:
>
>> VIP was it... I wrote a lot of school papers and used the local BBS's on
>> it
>> as well.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <
>> coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  The VIP library had a graphic menu, I picture of a desk and a bookshelf,
>>> you clicked on the different books to run each program.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bill Pierce
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com>
>>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Mon, Nov 10, 2014 7:57 pm
>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Office suite
>>>
>>>
>>> VIP might be it...   I remember it loading to a menu to pick the
>>> different
>>> applications.  Green background back text sticks in my head.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
>>> retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Could it be VIP ? It was in graphic mode supporting 52 characters.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Luis Felipe Antoniosi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I rember using a CoCo "office" suite when back in the day, for the life
>>>>>
>>>> of
>>>>
>>>>> me I cannor remember what it was.  I know it had a word processor,
>>>>>
>>>> spread
>>>
>>>> sheet and terminal program.  It must have been an OS9 program because
>>>>>
>>>> it
>>>
>>>> was for 80 column text.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>>
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