Word: processor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Theirs was an open world of new sciences and new wonders of technology; experiment lured them to try anything new. That might be a foreign car, a beeping microwave oven, a computer incomprehensible to oldsters, a simple word processor or advanced data base access that gave new tools to leadership. Their social values were different too. They found living together, man and woman, without marriage unobjectionable; the Pill had divorced sex from commitment. They were likely to be tolerant of homosexuals; they were tolerant of women in the workplace. To reach them politics had to offer something...
...antique-filled ground-floor office in a town house a ten-minute bus ride from her home. The bookshelves contain a large collection of etiquette books, from The Book of the Courtier to Victorian Vista. Martin devotes one day a week to writing her column on an IBM word processor. Some of her mail, which may be useful later (she has to work two months in advance), gets saved in wooden trays with such labels as Weddings, Business or Diverse Civilities; other letters receive a standard answer in engraved script on cream paper ("Miss Manners regrets exceedingly...
Also now available are the Macintosh ($1200), the DEC Rainbow ($1827), the DEC Professional 350 ($3050) and the DECmate II world processor...
...writing, such as humanities majors. The Macintosh is a less expensive student oriented machine, with the drawback of limited software. Science oriented users would benefit most from the IBM PC/XT, and the DEC Professional 350 is a high powered all purpose computer. Finally, the DECmate II word processor is geared toward secretarial and administrative uses and is not often selected by students...
...previous deals have made available the Apple Macintosh (starting at $1827), the DEC Rainbow (Starting at $1827), the DEC Professional 350 (starting at $3050) and the DEC mate II World Processor (approximately...