What a lovely machine,
I mean, its way before my time, but thinking of all the intricacies of making this, having to manage your systems in those old languages, having to take care of the resource scarcity, having no where near the tooling we have current day for development. Its a wonder it exists
I worked on one--a Wang word processor--at my first job when I was 21. Before that, we used an IBM Selectric and a Panasonic (I think) Memory writer. It was a typewriter that could save a line or two of writing.
I still have an electric typewriter! 😊
The most bizarre thing about the beginning of the home computer age was the attempts to flood the market with items that weren’t quite a PC but they did ONE thing a PC did.
And it makes some sense in that PCs we’re ungodly expensive. But you were also paying 500 bucks for a super-type writer.
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I mean, its way before my time, but thinking of all the intricacies of making this, having to manage your systems in those old languages, having to take care of the resource scarcity, having no where near the tooling we have current day for development. Its a wonder it exists
I still have an electric typewriter! 😊
And it makes some sense in that PCs we’re ungodly expensive. But you were also paying 500 bucks for a super-type writer.
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