I'm still strongly persuaded that we achieved the summit in word processing technology with the IBM Selectric III electric typewriter with the self-correcting ribbon feature. Everything since then has added complexity and challenges and an incredible explosion of 'written' communication while making no significant improvement in the content.
Ah, the golf ball, and magic corrections lifting your errors off the page, if you caught them soon enough. I loved that machine, but replaced it with a Kaypro II computer and a daisy wheel printer.
The State Department replaced them with several things, a MagCard machne typewriter, and perhaps similar tech but then went in on Wang WorkStations ("Don't confuse Wang with technology" my colleague, Benjamin Weber, Moscow, 1996).
I'm still strongly persuaded that we achieved the summit in word processing technology with the IBM Selectric III electric typewriter with the self-correcting ribbon feature. Everything since then has added complexity and challenges and an incredible explosion of 'written' communication while making no significant improvement in the content.
Ah, the golf ball, and magic corrections lifting your errors off the page, if you caught them soon enough. I loved that machine, but replaced it with a Kaypro II computer and a daisy wheel printer.
The State Department replaced them with several things, a MagCard machne typewriter, and perhaps similar tech but then went in on Wang WorkStations ("Don't confuse Wang with technology" my colleague, Benjamin Weber, Moscow, 1996).