# PaperClip
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{{Not to be confused|Clippy}}
{{Short description|1982 word processor}}
{{Infobox software
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| author = '''Commodore 64'''
Steve Douglas
'''Atari 8-bit'''
Steve Ahlstrom
Dan Moore
| developer = [Batteries Included](/source/Batteries_Included_(company))
| released = {{Start date and age|1982}}[{{cite web|url=http://pcmuseum.ca/companyprofile.asp?id=39 |title=The Personal Computer Museum, Brantford, Ontario, CANADA - Recycle, donate, and browse your old computers, electronics, video games, and software |website=Pcmuseum.ca |accessdate=2016-07-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703212437/http://www.pcmuseum.ca/companyprofile.asp?id=39 |archivedate=2016-07-03 }}]
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'''PaperClip''' is a [word processor](/source/word_processor) for the [Commodore 64](/source/Commodore_64), [128](/source/Commodore_128) ([native mode](/source/native_mode)), and [Atari 8-bit computers](/source/Atari_8-bit_computers) published by [Batteries Included](/source/Batteries_Included_(company)) in 1985. In the UK it was published by [Ariolasoft](/source/Ariolasoft).
Both the Atari and Commodore versions share the PaperClip name, but have significant differences.[{{cite news | title=Canada's Atari | work=ROM | date=February–March 1985 | url=http://www.atarimagazines.com/rom/issue10/canada_atari.php |accessdate=16 October 2013 | author=Ellison, Peter | pages=7}}] and was rewritten for the Atari personal computer by Steve Ahlstrom and Dan Moore. The Atari version is based upon the editor in the [Action!](/source/Action!_(programming_language)) [programming language](/source/programming_language) by Clinton Parker.
PaperClip is also the name given to the text editor [ROM](/source/Read-only_memory) portion of the [Commodore PET](/source/Commodore_PET) Execudesk office suite. The ROM was written by Steve Douglas as well.
==Features==
PaperClip does not use [word wrap](/source/word_wrap) to display text on the screen, which ''[Ahoy!](/source/Ahoy!)''{{'}}s reviewer wrote was satisfactory for Commodore 64 users with 40-column displays but drew the ire of the reviewer for [Whole Earth Software Catalog](/source/Whole_Earth_Software_Catalog) while highlighting [OMNIWRITER](/source/OMNIWRITER)'s support for same.[{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/Whole_Earth_Software_Catalog_1984_Point/Whole_Earth_Software_Catalog_1984_Point_djvu.txt|title=Whole Earth Software Catalog|year=1984 |isbn=9780385191661 |quote=Why EASY SCRIPT from Commodore and PAPER CLIP from Batteries Included continue to sell for the Commodore 64 baffles me. They can't even manage to end lines on the screen without breaking words in the middle.|last1=Brand |first1=Stewart |publisher=Quantum Press/Doubleday }}] The Commodore 64 version provides an 80-column [preview](/source/preview_(computing)) mode with text that was legible on a computer monitor, and supported a wide variety of Commodore and non-Commodore printers.
The software was supplied with a [dongle](/source/dongle), a [hardware key](/source/hardware_key) used for [copy protection](/source/Copy_protection) that plugged into the [Atari joystick port](/source/Atari_joystick_port), also present on the C64.[{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/ahoy-magazine-13/Ahoy_13_January_1985#page/n43/mode/2up | title=Paper Clip | work=Ahoy! | date=January 1985 | accessdate=16 October 2013 | author=Kevelson, Morton | pages=44–46}}] A keyless version was also available. An [EPROM](/source/EPROM) was also used for copy protection on the PET. Other programs that used such a method just checked for a couple of specific bytes of data in the EPROM, and this check was easily bypassed by a small change to the code. PaperClip, however, placed all the user messages in the EPROM. Thus no EPROM, and no messages.
One unusual aspect of PaperClip is that the Control key functions more like on a hand-held calculator. You have to press and release the Control key, then press the key for the appropriate function.
==Reception==
''[Ahoy!](/source/Ahoy!)'' wrote that "PaperClip is one of the most comprehensive word processing programs for the C-64", but noted the $125 list price.[{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/Ahoy_Issue_09_1984-09_Ion_International_US#page/n9/mode/2up | title=In Search Of... A Word Processor | work=Ahoy! | date=September 1984 | accessdate=27 June 2014 | author=Nath, Sanjiva K. | pages=11}}]
''[Antic](/source/Antic_(magazine))'' called PaperClip, "by far the best word processor ever available for the Atari."[{{cite news | url=http://www.atarimagazines.com/v4n1/paperclip.html | title=Paperclip: State-of-the-art Atari word processing! | work=Antic | date=May 1985 | accessdate=27 June 2014 |author1=Ciarolo, Michael |author2=Friedland, Nat }}] In the December 1986 shopper's guide, a staffer wrote, "We write and edit every word at ''Antic'' with PaperClip before transmitting the copy to our [typesetter](/source/typesetter) via [modem](/source/modem)."[{{cite journal |title=Fifth Annual Shopper's Guide |journal=Antic |date=December 1986 |volume=5 |issue=8 |url=https://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n8/ShoppersGuide.html}}]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Word processors}}
Category:1982 software
Category:Word processors
Category:Atari 8-bit computer software
Category:Commodore 64 software
Category:Commodore 128 software
{{WordProcessor-stub}}
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