Re: Old word processors

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From: roger...
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 04:12

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On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 1:27:45 PM UTC-7, 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.
> 
> Still I wonder if big machines like some IBM 360/370 did not have word
> processors... 

Don't know about big iron, but the vocational center across from the high
school I attended had an IBM Office System/6 that was a very nice machine,
when it was working (sadly, it seemed to require a lot of maintenance). 

It had a CRT display, 8" floppies, and the nicest keyboard I've ever
used; it felt and sounded just like typing on a Selectric.

They had only the one OS/6 and it didn't get used a lot. They also had
a room full of Commodore PETs with nice keyboards and a word processor
in ROM, which is what the students mostly used.
-- 
roger ivie
roger...@gmail.com

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