WPS-8 was awesome! I had one of the desks with the 8a in the back and rxo1 drives! and the daisy wheel printer then over time ended up with three.... but alas have none now... Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 9/10/2017 3:25:04 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
> On Sep 10, 2017, at 5:24 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, couryho...@aol.com wrote: >> then..... who was..... the TRUE first? > > Michael Shrayer's girlfriend? > And what motivated him to write "Electric Pencil"? > Jerry started using it early on, but he was NOT the first user of it. > > Before Electric Pencil, what microcomputer word-processor programs preceded that? I seriously doubt that Michael Shrayer was the only one to write one. > > What word-processor programs existed prior to micros? WPS-8, of course. Wang had word processors in that same era. Then there is the MT/ST which I think is older still. And if you define it as "computer based text editor" then you'd go back at least to TECO, which first appeared on the PDP-1, so that would be early 1960s. paul
