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She created the first computerized stand-alone word processor, but the tech inside was less important than what it could do for businesses - and from what I can
by makomk 8y ago
She created the first computerized stand-alone word processor, but the tech inside was less important than what it could do for businesses - and from what I can tell it wasn't significantly more capable than IBM's older electromechanical MT/ST system, which also had the advantage of having IBM's name and financial resources behind it. It was also made obsolete a few years later by display-based interactive systems that resemble what we think of as word processing today.