Does my creating a procedures manual from punched cards printed on an IBM 402 back in 1962 count as word/text processing?
m ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Guzis via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> To: "Ed via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 3:12 PM Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a novel on a computer Earl... > On 09/10/2017 11:40 AM, Ed via cctalk wrote: >> then..... who was..... the TRUE first? >> > > We'll probably never know that one. It was an obvious application once > alphanumeric printing was possible. See, for example: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor#History > > One of the initial attractions was realizing that a computer program > could arrange and format text to fit on a sheet of paper--and that it > was very easy to edit said text if it resided on a deck of punched > cards; later on a video display. > > --Chuck >
