What was the first word processor hardware/software you ever used?

[arcenite]

I have no idea... whatever they had on the computers in elementary school... it was like a mac-dos word perfect thing

 

[Linflas]

MASS11 on a VAX. Before that I used TSO SPF2 and Wylbur on OS/MVS machines but those weren't really Word Processing software.

 

[Beige]

I forgot the Number on it but it was a Canon Digital type writer. With black ink tapes, floppy drive. Only had 3 types of font lol...No times new Roman .

I still have it. Don't know why. Still works too.

 

[Beige]

Originally posted by: AStar617
Typewriters not included.

HAHA i put a typewriter anyway ..and double posted...>_>

 

[fitzov]

I think it was a Commodore 64--we wrote "choose your own" adventure games on it in basic.

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
WordPerfect for DOS, probably (can't remember the version)

same here, but it was for windows 2 or something. I think it was WordPerfect 5.0 or something like that.

 

[sswingle]

An Apple II was my first, I forget what the actual software was called.

 

[brunswickite]

I think it was called 8in1. it ran on a PC XT, with two 5.25 floppies

 

[DaiShan]

Vi! My mom has worked in IT since the 70's (programmer -> project manager - > exec) and despite my father's vehement objections to the contrary, has always said that Unix/linux won't be going away any time soon

/edit as far as a more fully functional word processor, probably some variant of word perfect.

 

[aircooled]

we had a Brother word processor, then I got my Commodore 64.

 

[mcvickj]

Deskmate. I might even still have a copy of it somewhere....hehe

 

[CaptnKirk]

1981 - 1985 we lived the whims of the Wang Word Processor

 

[Suture]

WordStar on a Kaypro computer.

 

[Reel]

ATOT It includes grammar checker and spell checker too!

 

[Phlargo]

My first word processing program was Symphony - a <gasp> pre-windows program.

 

[pontifex]

probably Apple IIc computer. dunno what the program was called anymore, if there really was a program.

 

[nakedfrog]

AppleWorks.

 

[ColdFusion718]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

What was the first word processor hardware/software you ever used?

I don't remember what it was called, but it was a stand alone unit w/ a small amber screen IIRC

I had this Brother word processor. You could save your files on floppy disks. The monitor was also a built-in amber display. My sister and I used it to do most of our writing when people were still doing their papers in pen or pencil.

 

[JulesMaximus]

First word processor was WordPerfect (can't remember the version). First computer I ever used was a TRS-80 Model II (my first computer in fact-well, my brother and I shared it). It didn't have a hard drive or an operating system. I think it had 4k RAM.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: PhoenixOrion
Microsoft Word 2002.

WTF? How old are you anyways?

 

[oboeguy]

Bank Street Writer (haven't said that in a while) on the Apple ][e.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
1981 - 1985 we lived the whims of the Wang Word Processor

what if dell was wang, then the kid on the dell commercials would say:


"DUDE! you're getting a WANG!" :Q

 

[bob4432]

don't even know what it was - but the green screen setup. back in the late 80s or so. but i did learn to type on a manual typewriter

 

[DaveJ]

Originally posted by: Shawn
A program called Writing Assistant. My dad used it on an IBM PCjr with an 8088 processor. He also used it on his packard bell 286. I was too young to really have any use for a word processor at that time though. The first word processor which actually recieved a lot of use was MS Works for Win 3.1 on our old 486.

OMG, what're the odds.... We had a PCjr with that exact same program when I was a kid...

Dave

 

[mundane]

My family had an old Atari, I can't remember the model. The 'keyboard' unit opened up in the back, revealing slots for two cartridges (only one I ever used was for BASIC). Two 5 1/4" floppy drives. I *think* there was a dot-matrix printer, but I might be confusing that with our old IBM PS/2.