Word processor (Wang WPS, WordStar)
Procesador de textos (Wang WPS, WordStar)
- Date
- 1976 · confidence medium
- Place
- Wang Laboratories, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States; WordStar in San Rafael, California (1978)
- Credited to
- An Wang and Harold Koplow (Wang WPS); Seymour Rubinstein and Rob Barnaby (WordStar); IBM MT/ST (1964) as a forerunner
- People
- 👤 An Wang1920–1990👤 Harold Koplow1940–2004
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Systems that allow a document to be written, corrected and reformatted on screen before printing. They eliminated typing as a profession and the typewriter itself.
What it led to
- The disappearance of the typewriter and the typing pool
- Microsoft Word and office software
- Writing as continuous editing
Built on
- Minicomputer (DEC PDP-8)1965
- IBM Selectric MT/ST
- terminal interface
Made possible
- PostScript and desktop publishing1984-1985
- Microsoft Word
- Google Docs