VolksWriter

Volkswriter was a 1980s-era word processor created and distributed by Lifetree Software, Inc.

Volkswriter was first published in 1982, [cite web
url=http://www.computer.org/portal/site/annals/menuitem.8933248930f8c11dbe1fbe108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=annals_level1&path=annals/articles/xtras/a1-2006&file=timeline.xml&xsl=article.xsl&;jsessionid=HrhkYKP46JpHMP3cTJQtWjyXJNnyvVpQtsrDFfw5yP2ND3cmQxhX!545993162
title=Word Processing Timeline
accessdate=2007-11-02
publisher=IEEE Computer Society
quote=Volkswriter released by Lifetree Software] and was the first word processor for the IBM PC [cite encyclopedia
last=Mangelsdorf
first=Tom
contribution=Lifetree Software Inc.
title=Encyclopedia of microcomputers
editor=Kent, Allen
volume=Volume 10
pages=201-203
publisher=CRC Press
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UjtSJTvcISsC&pg=PA202&dq=volkswriter&sig=U_Z79KMNC12VSRz0jw-ZDYCL4MQ#PPA201,M1
accessdate=2007-11-04
id=ISBN 0824722795] Lifetree published versions of the software until May, 1989 when due to profitability problems, the Volkswriter product line was sold to some employees. The new company formed with the name Volkswriter Inc. [cite web
url=http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/computer-software-productivity-applications/132147-1.html
title=The Volkswriter turnaround
accessdate=2007-11-02
date=1990-11-07
work=Soft-Letter]

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