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"Expensive Typewriter" required a PDP-1, a million-dollar machine (in current dollars). That was too expensive to be viable in a real-world business environmen
by zozbot123 8y ago
"Expensive Typewriter" required a PDP-1, a million-dollar machine (in current dollars). That was too expensive to be viable in a real-world business environment. The Redactron was a dedicated hardware device which of course was vastly cheaper, and achieved widespread success in the 1960s. So they were both "first" in word processing, but in very different ways.
- PavlovsCat 8y agohttp://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102728582 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102728582 > the Redactron system could facilitate automatic composition and printing of over 300 semi-personalized letters a day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor_(electronic_device)#IBM_Selectric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor_(electronic_dev... > Evelyn Berezin invented a Selectric-based word processor in 1969, and founded the Redactron Corporation to market the $8,000 machine. In a word, yup.
- Finnucane 8y agoRight, one is a 'machine that can perform some word processing -like functions' and the other is a 'machine that a real user would use for word processing in an actual work setting'.