Batteries Included (company)

Batteries Included
Founded1978 (1978), in Toronto, Ontario
Defunct1987 (1987)
FatePurchased by Electronic Arts
Headquarters,
Canada
Key people
Alan Krofchick
Robbie Krofchik
Marcie Swartz
L. Brian Swartz
ProductsPaperClip
DEGAS

Batteries Included was a computer software and hardware company based in the Toronto area. It developed products for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS. The company was best known in the 1980s for its PaperClip word processor, which was available for the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64, and the DEGAS bitmap painting program for the Atari ST. Batteries Included was acquired by Electronic Arts in 1987.