Trivia
- According to Gary Furr, Atari sold over 800,000 cartridges, not including Atariwriter Plus. He himself sold over 10,000 printer driver diskettes.
- Furr wrote the original specifications for AtariWriter using an Atari 800 and the Atari Word Processor program.
- Page 19 of the AtariWriter manual contains an intentionally erroneous section of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. This was used for tutorial purposes.
- On pages 21 and 22, the reader is taught how to search and replace text, using one of the errors on the previous page (the protagonist's name is corrected from "Edith" to "Alice").
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