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If he said that in 1970 he only had 3 years wait for item 2. The IBM Selectric II Correcting was introduced in '73.
by cladari 8y ago
If he said that in 1970 he only had 3 years wait for item 2. The IBM Selectric II Correcting was introduced in '73.
- WalterBright 8y agoCorrecting by stamping white ink over a letter was indeed a marvelous improvement, but nothing like what came later with a word processor. Later word processors, like the Wang in the late 70's, destroyed Selectrics, and obsoleted the job of "secretary". I remember my Mom typing his thesis over and over on the Royal typewriter. What a boring, dehumanizing task that was. My dad abandoned his typewriter when he bought a Trash-80. I abandoned my typewriter when I discovered the printer in the computer center at Caltech around 1975. I'd use runoff, a marvelous program that is a precursor to HTML.