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Given the dents for punctuation I'm thinking it was done on a manual typewriter, which its very hard to integrate with a spellchecker. :)
by rb808 7y ago
Given the dents for punctuation I'm thinking it was done on a manual typewriter, which its very hard to integrate with a spellchecker. :)
- falcor84 7y ago;) Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to develop a "manual" typewriter that warns the user that they are about to make a spelling mistake, possibly keeping the whole word in a buffer until they handle the warning. The warning itself can be performed via any means, including but not limited to an electrical zap.
- jarfil 7y agoAt some point there used to be electric typewriters with a 1 or 2 line buffer that they'd show on a black and white LCD. I don't know whether they had a spellchecker, but it wouldn't be hard to add one.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 7y agoIt would if they didn't have sufficient compute, RAM, ROM. Something that can buffer and edit 2 lines (~160 byte, and not necessarily 8-bit ones either) does not necessarily want to add hundreds of kilobytes of dictionary and the code to look things up in it.
- blattimwind 7y agoThere were electronic typewriters with spell and grammar checking.
- codewiz 7y agoExcept, you'd need ~50KB of ROM to store an English dictionary. This figure comes from the original UNIX spell program, which employed advanced compression techniques to fit into a 64KB memory footprint: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1095395 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1095395
- kgwgk 7y agoThey were definitely available in the early eighties: https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/23/business/typewriters-of-electronic-era.html https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/23/business/typewriters-of-e...