One of the first to receive it in California, he purchased IBM's EasyWriter word processor-a launch title for the PC-and later said that its "horrors .. were such that I decided to write my own .. to get the book done".
EasyWriter was so poor in quality that Volkswriter was for a while, as Andrew Fluegelman wrote in late 1982, "the only fully functioning word processor available for the PC".[REF]