word processor history -- interesting article (Evan Koblentz)

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Thu Jul 7 12:57:13 CDT 2016


On 07/06/2016 07:15 PM, Murray McCullough wrote:
> My first word processor was from Wang called “Word Processor” and 
> then IBM’s “Displaywriter”. I tried “Wordstar” originally called 
> “Wordmaster” but way too complicated.

The big oversight here is that nobody seems to collect old wapro stuff;
Harris, Lanier, AES, Artec, Qyx, etc.

Soon, this will be a big hole in history, I suspect.

--Chuck


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