Famous Kaypro Users

Roy Underhill

Television Personality (The Woodwright Shop)

"That is my beloved Kaypro as we are posing for a magazine article on how I used it for construction management, building eighteenth century houses at Colonial Williamsburg."
(Email from Roy Underhill, August 15, 2025)

Arthur C. Clarke

Author

"Arthur C. Clarke, one of the world's best known and most respected authors of science fiction and science fact literature, poses before one of the Kaypro II computers used to relay information between the production office and Clarke's Sri Lanka home."
(Caption at the bottom of image)

D. C. Fontana

Script writer (Star Trek, TOS & TNG)
Ironic the the Writer of the episode "The Ultimate Computer" would later use a Kaypro.
She even submitted a question to Kugram stating the machines she used.

Dear KUG,

Does anyone out there know of a file program that will let me catalog my library books with a number of entries under the "author" category? For instance, if I have ten books by Mark Twain, I want to catalog them by individual title and list them all under Twain's name. Perfect Filer does not seem to have an answer to this.

I should mention that I have both an old Kaypro 2 and a Kaypro 2000. I work most often with the old 2, but if a suggested program needs the extra capacity of the 2000, I'd use that.

D.C. Fontana

[Street address redacted by me]

Studio City, CA 91604
(Kugram, May/June 1986)

From her interview with the Writer's Guild:

I write by hand. First draft. I love my yellow pads but then as I'm typing it now into the computer it's easy to change. If I come up with a better line of dialog or a better scene sequence I can move them around and all that good stuff but that's my second draft. Then I print it out because I like to look at the page. I hate looking at a screen. I do it all again. I read it through. I edit it. I add things. I take things out and then I go back to the computer and put it in all again so my producers are usually getting third or fourth drafts but that's how I work. ...

The greatest thing that happened was computers. I got my first one in 1983 and I haven't stopped using computers since. But I still do that original first work by hand on a yellow pad
(The Writer Speaks: D.C. Fontana around 1:14)