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I did. I used my mom's typewriter, which she typed her thesis on in the 1950s, and switched to word processing on a college owned TRS-80 before getting an MS-DO
by analog31 2y ago
I did. I used my mom's typewriter, which she typed her thesis on in the 1950s, and switched to word processing on a college owned TRS-80 before getting an MS-DOS machine of my own.
The big breakthrough was editing. WYSIWIG didn't solve a problem in that space. College papers didn't need different fonts, and it was sufficient to let the computer take care of formatting, like using Markdown.
I'm not dismissing the Apple, but it was priced out of my reach in 1984.
- solomonb 2y ago> I used my mom's typewriter, which she typed her thesis on in the 1950s The point was that later typewriters had a features like memory, automatic indentation and erasing that were not available in 1950s era typewriters..
- analog31 2y agoYes, but nobody was buying those for personal or student use, and the really cheap ones came later.
- pjmlp 2y agoIn Southern Europe Apple hardware has always been the most expensive one among systems for home users. Hence why I had to wait until university to actually see them outside computer magazines, and only one room had them on the computer labs, versus the whole campus filled with PCs and UNIX terminals.