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Originally Posted by Catlady
My last typewriter pre-computer had a small LCD screen like that; I think it would show a line of type at a time. It also had a memory that would hold a few pages, so it was possible to go back and input corrections.
Did anyone ever use a Wang word processor? You could save documents to cassette tapes.
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The pre-computer typewriter you described is similar to the one I recently purchased (mentioned in this thread's first post). In addition to being able to type a line on the LCD screen before committing it to paper, you can also store and edit text and phrases in the memory (it has 16kb of storage).
I didn't use a Wang word processor, but based on the way it was described elsewhere in this thread it seems similar to the Canon word processor I used. It wasn't bad, except if you made a mistake when printing it would mess up the system.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Xerox introduced the world to WYSIWYG on their Star system a few years prior to the other Steve's Apple Lisa, which preceded the Mac.
I had the misfortune to work on a WANG VS for a short while, they were an IBM 360 clone of sorts that tried to compete with DEC VAX, Prime, DG, etc 
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The CPT Word Processor had something similar to WYSIWYG. It had a paper-white monochrome screen that looked like paper and had 60 lines of text so you could see an entire page on the screen. While it would show you what the document should look like, it wouldn't show the actual typeface (just the system typeface) and it wouldn't show justification.