Word: processor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Printing papers that are created on your home word processor is fairly simple, provided you plan in advance. Translated, that means finding an appropriate systems disk for a Macintosh or a suitable word processing package on your IBM PC (or compatible...
...There definitely are advantages for a personusing a word processor as opposed to a typewriter.At the moment, it would be impossible to do athesis on a typewriter," said Joseph Konstan '87,a former president of the Computer Society whoworked with the committee on acquiring themachines
...great many of the King-Bachman books seem to have been written on a word processor by a word processor. The author often employs three exclamation points !!! where one would suffice, shows a blithe disregard for grammar ("My mother used to tell my brother David and I to 'hope for the best and expect the worst' "), and produces metaphors that obviously embarrass their creator: "He felt that he had unwittingly stuck his hand into the Great Wasps' Nest of Life. As an image it stank." But all along he displays one talent that never flags -- he is able to convince...
...from time to time and trying to guess from observation how well the subordinate performs, a manager can now simply look into a worker's computer dossier and immediately see, for instance, an exact record of how many letters a week a secretary has been handling on her word processor. The manager can compare one worker objectively with all the others, then reward the speedy ones and warn the laggards. Not all employees find the surveillance oppressive. In fact many, particularly the hardest workers, prefer the new evaluative technique because they see it as a matter-of-fact measurement...
...stars, such as Michael York (Anna Karenina), Michael Learned (The Scarlet Letter) and Jason Robards (Anatomy of an Illness), or such authors as Ann Beattie, John Updike and Eudora Welty, reading from their own works. Even Lee Iacocca, Rosalynn Carter and Mike Wallace have recently gone from the word processor to the microphone. It is as ^ if, after decades of attention to the eye in TV, films and videocassettes, the ear has been rediscovered...