The idea for the Word Processing Machine came to me when I was researching keyboards. Razer’s line of mechanical keyboards, to be precise. Some were based on the standard cherry switch, others ...

A computer that is specialized for word processing functions. Years ago, Wang Labs made its mark with dedicated word processing machines; however, after personal computers began to infiltrate ...

AN ODE TO WORD PROCESSING ... starting with a Wang dedicated machine at the LA Times, followed by Scripsit and Electric Pencil on a TRS-80, MASS-11 on a VAX, ...

If you were an American kid in the 1990s, chances are good that you may have been issued a little word processing machine by your school called an Alphasmart. These purpose-built machines created b… ...

It was an important evolution that lowered the cost of word processing and made it more reliable,¹ but it doesn’t mean that Berezin “built the first true word processor.” ¹The MT/ST broke ...

IBM engineer Leon Cooper helped develop the Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter, or MT/ST, the first electronic word-processing machine, beginning in the late 1950s. The Lexington-made product was ...

Arnold Goldman helped create one of the first word-processing machines, then moved on to build some of the world’s largest solar-energy plants. In 1969, the electrical engineer co-founded a Los ...

Pages, Apple's alternative to Microsoft Word, is deceptively simple. Here are three ways to get the most of Apple's free word processing app, including a Pages cheat sheet.