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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> On 2018-03-16, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> You might like some of these;
> 
> http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox860/index.html
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_(software)
>    (Look at the name of the second co-developer and ask yourself "Who wrote
>    MS Word?")
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star
> 
> http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVw86emu-K0
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Daybreak
> 
> And once you've marvelled at what was being done by Xerox nearly 50 years
> ago, ask yourself where it all went wrong? 

I think the Digibarn article says it, something like " few people know
about the Xerox 860." They had stuff that was ahead of it's time, but
marketed it poorly.


> (Xerox was last month subsumed
> by its Japanese joint venture, Fuji Xerox). And yes, I worked for them for
> some years, using (and in some cases programming) all the above systems. I
> wish them well, since they still have a pension of mine!
> 



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Pete