On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
WORD PROCESSING VIA PUNCH CARDS
Need to insert the paragraph in a different place?
Shift those cards in the deck <grin!>
Yep!
To make a change, you retype a LINE, not a PAGE.
WE think of microcomputers as being the first "practical" way to do it.
A lot of the young kids can't imagine the idea of word-processing without
FONTS, just as we had difficulty with the idea of all UPPERCASE.
Thirty years ago, even if an author used a word processor, the PUBLISHER
would re-type it! They absolutely did not want fonts and formatting,
wanting to control those themselves, and probably wouldn't have even
cared about UPPER/lower case!
My publisher's wife would average 150 words per minute for an eight hour
day! At the end of the day, she remembered almost nothing of what she had
typed. Word processing was much more important to me, since it took me
five times as long to type each page. But, they liked the idea of a word
processor - less mechanical stuff to wear out, "when the keyboard wears
out, you can just plug in another one, without having to have anything
repaired??!" (after moving from TRS-80 to 5150).
Seriously though... anything helps me... I have never written long things
in a linear manner...
when I was a kid I would write the stuff down then cut the
paragraphs out and rearrange them and tape them to a new piece of paper.
THAT is what attracted Deighton. Copydex (paste) instead of tape. Some
prefer hot wax pasteup.
Then I discovered Girls!
How wonderfully they did with shorthand and typing.
and changed your focus
