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anyone remember the old-timey hardware word processors?
by fnord77 5y ago
anyone remember the old-timey hardware word processors?
- itronitron 5y agoyes, those were common in college in the early '90's, I wouldn't be surprised if they could be found and refurbished. I think Brother was one of the more popular brands.
- fnord77 5y agoI was just searching around and Brother units are the only ones I can find. I seem to recall other ones.
- HelixEndeavor 5y agoWe need to bring them back honestly. I want more useful offline tech.
- mdp2021 5y ago> I want more useful offline tech I am not sure in which sense you meant that, but my "E-Ink typewriter" (Onyx + BT Keyboard) has never been online.
- sacado2 5y agoYeah, they sucked, you couldn't fix your mistakes, let alone insert a sentence just before another, or, god forbid, move a whole section of your text. Plus, you only had one copy of your text, you had to retype all of it if you wanted to make a copy. And entirely retype it another time into another hardware device if you wanted to do any formatting at all. I'm glad we have better options nowadays. Good fitness machines though, because you better have strong fingers to type all day long with these devices.
- tomjen3 5y agoThose are typewritters (and manual ones at that, if there is any issue with your fingers), op was talking about word processors, which have almost exactly none of the issues you mentioned. You can see the 8bit guy demo one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNs-QIMHCJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNs-QIMHCJA
- sacado2 5y agoFair enough, I didn't know these devices. I don't see how different they are from a computer with only one application installed, though.