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From: Daiyu Hurst
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:26

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On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 4:27:45 PM UTC-4, Andreas Kohlbach 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'm surprised to find no mention of John Draper's EasyWriter.

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