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On 03/16/2018 02:27 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> 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.

I distinctly remember typewriters in the '90s that had a small (single 
line?) display on them for management and could record and edit 
documents for subsequent re-typing.

> Still I wonder if big machines like some IBM 360/370 did not have word 
> processors...

I'm guessing that "Professional Office", a.k.a. "PROFS", or subsequent 
versions, "Office Vision", a.k.a. "OV", very likely qualify.

> 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.

I don't know how advanced they were, but they are very likely on your 
scale.  They might (I don't know) not have been able to manage bold / 
italic / other fonts.  But that was very likely a limitation of the 
printing technology (used in conjunction with the systems) of the time 
(as opposed to what was available).

> 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?

I thought the MT/ST as a PoC type project (that did make it to market?) 
that took IBM's typewriter, Selectric, and allowed it to save and 
re-type documents.  I think it was an early version of the typewriters 
from the '90s I was referencing above.

I would be shocked if IBM did something with a typewriter other than the 
Selectric.  I would also be surprised if anyone else bothered to, or 
even could, re-use the MT/ST technology.



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