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Just some fun facts:
Computers greatly affected the way many people edited their written work. With typewriters, which were very labor intensive, people tended to spend less time editing and reorganizing the papers they wrote because it was too inconvenient to have to retype several pages. But when PCs began to become more available in the 1980s, I remember reading research on how people who used them to write papers would typically spend way more time editing and reorganizing them because it was so easy to do on a PC. So quality of content tended to go up with PC use compared to typewriter use.
The DOS PCs were mostly just using text files in the early 1980s. Later on you could assign colors to represent italics, bold, etc., but you really didn't know how it would look until it was printed. The Macintosh brought us WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) making formatting so much easier and more precise. Eventually MS Windows came along and offered WYSIWYG too, but it took several years for that to happen.
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