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Article #621245Old word processors
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:27
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I was writing a blog article about early word processors and spreadsheets <https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/2018/03/history-of-wordprocessors-and-spread.html> but only covered early 8-Bit micros. Assuming Electric Pencil was the first while WordStar or SuperCalc (spreadsheet) only really became famous in the early days of the late 70s to early 80s. I know that in offices before that era type writers were used, even if an IBM Selectric could ease the work. But they were hardware. They hadn't a display (monitor) to edit text and only when done print it out. Still I wonder if big machines like some IBM 360/370 did not have word processors... By word processor I do not mean any text editor. A word processor should at least be able to wrap a word into the next line if it didn't fit into the current line. And had some markup for defining a bold or italic character and sub- and superscript. Apparently the IBM MT/ST (Magnetic Tape/Selectric Typewriter) from 1964 would match that description which was used only with an IBM Selectric. But there should had been applications which would not depend on an external type writer rather than using a dedicated printer, no? -- Andreas My random toughts and comments https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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