Electric Pencil, which first appeared in 1976 for the MITS Altiar, is the first word processor for home/micro computer systems. It was ported to many other systems, including the SOL-20, NothStar Horizon, and TRS-80. Eventually an enhanced/re-written version was created for the IBM PC.

Enable, from The Software Group, is an integrated office suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet, telecommunications program, and database. It was designed to compete with Lotus Symphony, and was sometimes bundled with Zenith computers.

Encore, from Passport Designs, is a music program that originated on the Atari ST in 1984. It enables writing and editing music using traditional notation format. It can import and export to a number of sources and supports MIDI playback. enable items in the musical score to be added and edited using the mouse.

EnerGraphics is an early business graphics package for the IBM PC. It supports vector based drawing, charting, statistical analysis functions, data import, slideshow, zooming, rotating, and some basic 3-d features. Includes support for laser printers, plotters, and film recorders.

EnerMerge is a companion product to the EnerGraphics graphics program that enables merging graphics and charts in to popular word processing program documents.

Eureka is a friendly and well-polished equation solver and plotter published by Borland. The software was targeted at both business people and scientists. Not only does it include scientific function, it also includes financial functions. It was notable for having a friendly windowing and menuing interface that let users do multiple things at a time. It competed directly with Mathcard.

Executive Card Manager, from Hewlett-Packard, is a Rolodex-like database for storing contact information. It features the ability to transfer information between other common applications. screen.

HOT, from Executive Systems - the makers of XTREE, is a highly configurable menu shell for the IBM PC, with built-in "hot menus" for common DOS functions. It features a pop-up file browser, a small text editor, the ability to feed keystrokes to applications, and automatically sets up known programs found on your hard drive.

Executor, from Abacus Research and Development, is a commercial DOS based Macintosh emulator. There were also versions for NextStep and Linux. Emulates a 68040 base Mac.

Expanz! is a drive compression system consisting of an expansion co-processor card and a set of software. It competed against Stacker, DoubleDisk and SuperStor. However Expandz! never made a software-only system. It worked a little differently as it compressed an entire partition rather than using an uncompressed host partition. While a hardware co-processor was useful for slower computer, software based solutions were able to surpass its performance with newer, faster CPUs.

Expert Animator is a budget DOS Based Animation Package. Features drawing, painting, and animating, point-and-click choreographing, generating animated electronic greeting cards, sound and music, 12 independently animated characters, and 256 color VGA support. It was published by Expert Software, who specialized in low cost budget software.

A computerized tool from Expert Software for displaying your personalized daily horoscope. It can also interpret your personality traits, values, temperament, attitudes, adaptation, [and gullibility]. Plots trends in business, fitness, creativity, and social activities. Prints chart wheels, calculates planet positions, [and empties your wallet.]

Expert Astronomer from Expert Software is a budget star chart with a large number of features. Database includes around 9000 objects including stars, constellations, and planets.

Expert Calendar is a simple, easy to use, scheduling database application for MS-DOS. It features the ability to search by name or subject. It includes a pop-up calendar. It can print calendars, planners, and agendas, and it supports dot matrix and laser printers.

Expert Fax Forms is a set of stylish fax image templates for use with PC based fax programs or fax machines. It includes a set of image templates in PCX format, and a basic graphics editing program. Supports CGA, EGA, and Hercules graphics and the use of a mouse.

Expert File and Calc is a combination database and spreadsheet targeted at budget home users. It supports importing dBase III databases and Lotus spreadsheets, includes the ability to make reports, and supports Lotus spreadsheet functions. It is a fairly primitive program, and the user interface(s) are very inconsistent.

Expert Home Design is a simple 2d layout program with home interior-oriented elements. It is one of a series of similar budget "design" titles published by Expert Software from RiverSoft.

Expert Landscape Design is a simple 2d layout program with home landscape-oriented elements. It is one of a series of similar budget "design" titles published by Expert Software from RiverSoft. Design, and Expert Home Design.

A budget mapping program from Expert Software that can print clipart from any global geographical location and contains a database of general information about each location.

Expert Office Design is a simple 2d floor layout program with office-oriented elements. It is one of a series of similar budget "design" titles published by Expert Software from RiverSoft. Design, and Expert Home Design.

Paint and Print, from Expert Software, is a budget drawing program for DOS.

Expert Software's Perfect Forms is a budget form creation and data entry tool. It comes with a large number of ready-to-use forms for a variety of business needs. You can customize existing forms, or create new ones.

Expert Perfect Typing, from Expert Software, is a low-end budget typing training program for DOS systems. It features the ability to track the progress of multiple users, has multiple skill levels for both new and experienced typists, and has both lessons and tests.

Expert Software's Personal Publisher is a rudimentary (crude), desktop publishing program. It does not use a graphical user interface, more closely resembling a document processing program. It was sold as a cheap low-end "budget" title - the sort of thing one might find on the shelf at a department store.

Expert Personal Roots is an easy to use low-cost Genealogy database. Records can be linked together to generate pedigree charts, ancestor charts, longevity reports, family group reports, and mailing labels.