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The original interview for this transcript was not recorded by request of the interviewee.
The original audio for this interview was not released by request of the interviewee. It appeared in summary form only on Inverse ATASCII podcast.
(WR) I’ve read in past magazine reviews that some versions of Letter Perfect supported expanded memory for the XL and XE’s. I’ve not been able to see that work. Was there something special that needed to be run first before booting the program disk? Which versions supported it?
(WR) I’ve read in past magazine reviews that some versions of Letter Perfect supported expanded memory for the XL and XE’s. I’ve not been able to see that work. Was there something special that needed to be run first before booting the program disk? Which versions supported it?
(KL) Only the XL line supported it. We were out of the market or looking to exit the market by the time the XE line was released. In 1986 we sold the naming right for the Perfect series to WordPerfect Corporation.
(KL) Only the XL line supported it. We were out of the market or looking to exit the market by the time the XE line was released. In 1986 we sold the naming right for the Perfect series to WordPerfect Corporation.
(WR) How did you transition from making personal computer software to the lines of business your in now? Did the Order Entry offering grow from any of the personal computer software?
(KL) I had been retired for a few years. I did a few updates to products. I still use “Edit 6502” on the PC today. Then I started writing optical software by request.
(KL) Nothing in particular.
(KL) Nothing in particular.
(WR) Do you have any interesting stories from LJK surrounding that time frame?
(KL) Early on I flew out to Atari with two techs, Chris Crawford maybe and ? We were to meet with Keith Schafer from Atari. He was unavailable or otherwise out. This meeting was to demonstrate the ready to release Letter Perfect and discuss distribution. Aside from Keith being unavailable we also had problems with the disk drives.
(KL) Atari had something happen during negotiations for VisiCalc distribution which altered how they (Atari) would handle 3rd party publishing. This may be why Keith was unavailable. Without Atari we went back and found our own publisher, and released with nationwide publishing anyway. Ultimately it never hurt us other than the wasted time at Atari.
(KL) When we met Atari at that first CES, Atari had been waiting on us to arrive. When we did we arrived with a bomb shell. We had the prototype of Letter Perfect on cartridge, and as mentioned demonstrated it on the 400 with 4K ram. It was basically ready when the Atari computers launched.
(KL) We also developed a program called “Easy Game Originator” which was a graphical OS for both the Atari and Apple 8 bits. It was never released.
(WR) I would have loved to have seen it.
(WR) That about covers my questions. Thank you for your time. It’s been very much appreciated.