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Point was a mouse-driven editor for MsDos that was distributed with some early Logitech mice, at a time when most MsDos users had never used a mouse before. Its main purpose was to demonstrate the usefulness of the mouse, and it never developed a following.
Early mouse driven editor for MS-DOS

Changed: 3c3,10
An enhanced version, with features not included in the one released by Logitech, is floating around as pt20pc.zip. It was released to the public domain, with source, by the author, Charlie Crowley, at the University of New Mexico's Computer Science Department.
Author: Charlie Crowley
Homepage: http://www.logitech.com
Download: http://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/msdos/editor/pt20pc.zip (Program - v2.0)
Download: http://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/msdos/editor/pt20txt.zip (Docs - v2.0)
Family: MsDosEditors
Platform: MS-DOS
Availability: No longer distributed by Logitech
License: Commercial - bundled with hardware

Changed: 5c12,14
One place to find it is here: http://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/msdos/editor/pt20pc.zip
Point was a mouse-driven editor for MsDos that was distributed with some early Logitech mice, at a time when most MsDos users had never used a mouse before. Its main purpose was to demonstrate the usefulness of the mouse, and it never developed a following.

An enhanced version, with features not included in the one released by Logitech, is floating around as pt20pc.zip. It was released to the public domain, with source, by the author, Charlie Crowley, at the University of New Mexico's Computer Science Department. See download pointers above.

Removed: 7d15
And docs are also available from the same place: http://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/msdos/editor/pt20txt.zip

Point was a mouse-driven editor for MsDos that was distributed with some early Logitech mice, at a time when most MsDos users had never used a mouse before. Its main purpose was to demonstrate the usefulness of the mouse, and it never developed a following.

An enhanced version, with features not included in the one released by Logitech, is floating around as pt20pc.zip. It was released to the public domain, with source, by the author, Charlie Crowley, at the University of New Mexico's Computer Science Department.

One place to find it is here: http://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/msdos/editor/pt20pc.zip

And docs are also available from the same place: http://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/msdos/editor/pt20txt.zip


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