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Originally Posted by DNSB
Perhaps dating myself, but I seem to remember when word processing was getting started. It took a while to move to using CRT monitors as display devices never mind LCD screens. Nothing like outputting to an IBM Selectric, stopping to switch type balls as needed for bold, italic, font changes, etc. Then came Electric Pencil (as used by Jerry Pournelle) which I ran on my CP/M box back in the 70's. It only took a decade after that for monitors and video display cards to improve to the point that anything close to WYSIWYG could be done. By the time LCD monitors came along in the 90's, word processing for personal computers was long established.
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Yes flavors of that too, but never faced with a panel of light bulbs to interpret so not quite a dinosaur here
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In case of any misunderstanding my post was in the context of when word processing became common in the office environment and self support and live editing became common even for senior employees. So late green screen through into early color CRT era. Prior to that time I had a typing slave assigned to me who prepared and then delivered my work on paper, ex golf-ball or line printer, for checking
. So one of the pampered.