I can sure remember every word processing program, starting with a Wang dedicated machine at the LA Times, followed by Scripsit and Electric Pencil on a TRS-80, MASS-11 on a VAX, Ami Pro on my ...

Consider the computer and its word processing software — programs like ... it was the family computer — in the early ’80s, when I was 12 or 13. I didn’t really take to the programming ...

All this changed in the 80s when companies like Xerox and now-defunct CPT Corporation made word processing machines with a white screen that displayed black text. This was done to replicate the ...

He uses the newer machine for browsing the Web and checking emails, but he turns to the older one when it’s time to write. And his late-’80s software of choice is the classic word processor ...

In brief: Before Microsoft Word became the de-facto standard for word processing on the PC ... developed by Rob Barnaby in 1978 for the CP/M-80 operating system, but it was later ported to ...

The ETV 2700 is a monstrous machine; a fusion of old-school word processor, x86-based hardware, and electric 17 inch-wide typewriter. With it one could boot up a word processor that is nothing ...

And then I have my writing computer, which is a DOS machine, not connected to ... editor made WordStar popular throughout the '80s for usage on word processors. "I actually like it, it does ...