Wangwriter OS

The Wangwriter Operating System is a dedicated Word Processing system designed for ease of use and ease of transition from a typewriter. As such, much of the design is indeed very similar to typewriter operation. Unlike traditional line based editors that were common in the era, the Wangwriter software is very much so a WYSIWYG design.

Usage

From the main menu pictured above, there are several different options that can be selected.

• Edit Old Document
  • Enter name of document you wish to edit (case sensitive)
• Create New Document
  • Enter name of new document you wish to create
• Print Document
  • Enter name of document you wish to print
  • See below for printing options
• Special Print Functions
  • Typewriter functionality
• Document Index
  • Displays a list of all the documents stored on the current Archive Disk
• Utilities
  • See below for full utilities list
• Glossary Functions
  • To be filled in.
• Remove Archive Disk
  • Performs cleanup on the Archive Disk and unlocks the floppy door, allowing the disk to be removed

#Edit Document This is the main editing/processing screen. By default, formatting marks are turned on, however they can be turned off by pressing Command followed by Replace. The monitor is a full 80 columns wide, which matches with the printing width. However, there are only 24 rows visible on screen at a time, so multiple screens can be scrolled through for a single printing page using the "Next Screen" or "Previous Screen" buttons.

Print Document

When printing a document, the following options are available.

Utilities

From the Utilities screen, you can delete, copy or rename a document, prepare an Archive Disk (format a disk), change the format, recover an Archive Disk, or duplicate a disk.

Disk Image Backup

The full Disk Image is available for back up at the following links:

Operating System disk image - IMG format

Operating System disk image - RAW format