Electric Desk 1.x
Electric Desk is an all-in-one integrated word processor, spreadsheet, database, and terminal program. It was first introduced in 1984 as a low-overhead office package targeted at the IBM PCjr, and was offered as a lower cost alternative to Ashton-Tate Framework and Lotus Symphony. Electric desk features windowing, macros, and context sensitive menus. The user interface is a little eccentric. It refers to the program components as "services", and refers to windows as "viewports".
Although it had a small marketshare, it survived for a long time as OEM bundled PC software.
It later became AlphaWorks, and then Lotus Works.
Screenshots
Release notes
Important: Version 1.04 is copy protected. To create a usable disk, you must use the provided SCP images. This software has been tested to run in the PCE emulator after converting the SCP image to PSI.
Protection type: Overlapping sectors on track 9 head 0
Installation instructions
To install to a hard drive, insert disk 2 (system disk) and run hard.bat.
Requires 256K RAM, and DOS 2.0 or higher.
Information
- Product type
- Application Word Processor Spreadsheet Communications Database
- Vendor
- Electric Software, Inc./Alpha Software
- Release date
- 1984
- Minimum CPU
- 8088
- Minimum RAM
- 256KB
- User interface
- Text
- Platform
- DOS
- Download count
- 13 (13 for release)
Downloads
| Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Electric Desk 1.04 (1984) (5.25-360k) (SCP) |
1.04 | English |
|
19.07MB | 4 |
|
Electric Desk 1.11 (5.25-360k) |
1.11 | English |
|
439.24KB | 4 |
 Electric Desk 1.x Manuals (1987) |
1.x | English |
|
82.8MB | 5 |