8 Jul
2016
8 Jul
'16
12:43 p.m.
On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Paul Koning wrote:
I may have missed it, but I haven't seen the IBM
MT/ST mentioned.
That's certainly a rather old system, dating back to 1964 according to
Wikipedia, which says it's the oldest word processor (and references an
article about WP history).
The original post that started this thread referred to a URL
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/how-to-write-a-histor…
It suggested that one significant contender for that author's "FIRST
author to write a book on a word processor" was Len Deighton. In the late
1960s he bought one. He wrote first drafts on his typewriter, then his
secretary, Ellenor Handley, retyped it into his MT/ST and edited it there.
Specifically, a novel entitled "Bomber", published in 1970.
If the MT/ST was released in 1964, then even with its high price, it seems
odd that so many years would go by before anybody used it for a book
manuscript.
(I also mentioned that the pronunciation of MT/ST made me want to create a
word processor to be called "FULL ST")