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Article #621582Re: Old word processors
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:50
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:50
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:26:18 -0700 (PDT), Daiyu Hurst wrote: > > 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. I never heard of it. Had to Google. It says that it was for the Apple 2 only. Although it predated the mentioned WordStar by a year or two... Well it seems to be Apple only. -- Andreas My random toughts and comments https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/2018/03/history-of-wordprocessors-and-spread.html
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