W ABC

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For the radio station, see WABC

W ABC was a program that converted files from Luxor ABC 80 and ABC 800 to PC compatible computers.

The program read and wrote ABC-floppies in the PC's diskette compartment. Besides pure file transfer some special file formats were converted. For example ORD800-files (wordprocessing on ABC 800) could be translated to WordPerfect-, Microsoft Word- or Cicero-files (Cicero was an odd short-lived word processor related to ORD800) while Kalkyl800-files was translated to something that could be read by Lotus 1-2-3 or Microsoft Excel-forerunner MultiPlan.

W ABC was written by Erik Lundh (Datorbokhandeln) and Jörn Rönnow.