Template:Did you know nominations/AtariWriter

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 17:36, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

AtariWriter

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• ... that the AtariWriter word processor for the Atari 8-bit family sold over 800,000 copies, about one copy for every five machines sold? Source: compound hook, 800k from Furr, 4mm from roundup, applying CALC
  • ALT1: ... that Consumer Reports rated AtariWriter a "best buy" in their roundup of word processor systems? Source: Noonan
  • ALT2: ... that the AtariWriter word processor for the Atari 8-bit family sold over 800,000 copies, on par with WordStar's 650,000 sales by the fall of 1983? Source: furr and Bergin
  • Reviewed: VMA-611
  • Comment: recent GA

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 17:55, 6 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/AtariWriter; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Hot dang, good job on getting this to GA! Great article; it took me a second to find the other half of that calc was from the businessweek source, which i'm assuming good faith on as its correctly cited in the article. Generalissima (talk) 03:55, 19 January 2024 (UTC)