Re: Old word processors

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From: hanc...
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:28

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On Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 4:44:01 PM UTC-4, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> Of course before the 80s word processors would only exist in large
> enterprises. They had one mainframe and a few printers, while the typists
> would sit on dumb and relatively cheap terminals. Should not take long to
> train a typist for the new technology.

Plenty of small enterprises had a word processing, such as an
IBM MT/ST.  My employer had 150 employees, but produced enough
reports to justify using a word processor back in the 1970s.
The presence of word processing was totally independent of
whether or not the organization had a computer.

> The advantages of editing on a CRT over a "direct printout" like with
> typewriters should have been clear since the 60s already.

The big advantage of word processing was that it allowed the user
to store text and not retype it every time.  That applied regardless
of whether it only had a typewriter output or a CRT.  Obviously,
one could do more with a CRT, but the typewriter with storage
was powerful in itself.

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