Real word processing came into being in the early 1970's when manufacturers started creating systems that could store material on magnetic media and alo it to be reproduced at a later time.
In 1969 IBM introduced a system that allowed cards to be inserted into a typewriter and stored what was typed. It only had a capacity for about 1 page, but was great for form letters. In 1972 companies used similar technology but rather than a typewriter, used video displays so that corrections could be made without producing hard copy. 'Real' word processors appeared in 1973 when Vydec introduced the 8 inch floppy disk to the systems. A floppy could store about 100 pages of text for reproduction at a later time. My mom worked with a Vydec machine for many years, producing documents for all sorts of consumers in New York City. See the following URL for more information (mind the gap): http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2002/cmsc434-0101/MUIseum/applications/wordhistory.html Lou -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity - Unknown On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < [email protected]> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on > 10/15/2013 > at 12:53 PM, Duffy <[email protected]> said: > > >If the government was in charge of Windows, we'd still be using > >typewriters :) > > They couldn't have done a worse job than m$, and we were using > computers for word processing well before windoze came along. In fact, > that's what destroyed my handwriting. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
