There was a time when the line between typewriters and word processing software was a bit fuzzy. [Poking Technology] found a Xerox 6040 which can’t decide what it is. It looks like a typewrit… ...

AN ODE TO WORD PROCESSING....Sheril Kirshenbaum is giving up her computer for the next couple of days:. This weekend finds me with the unique opportunity to use a vintage Smith-Corona Super ...

The Astrohaus Freewrite Traveler is a portable word processor and distraction-free writing device, but it’s held back by a tough-to-read screen and high price.

Microsoft on Tuesday "dusted off" the source code for early versions of the iconic MS-DOS operating system and '90s-vintage Word for Windows and released it to the public for the first time.

Then he has a DOS machine running WordStar, which was the top of the word-processing world when it debuted back in 1983. On his show, O'Brien asked his guest why he still uses the 31-year-old program.

35 years after the birth of the laptop computer and 25 years after Wi-Fi was invented, someone finally may have built the ultimate word processor.. The Freewrite, which was called the Hemingwrite ...

Get ready for vintage computing aplenty in [David Given]’s project to port EmuTOS to the AlphaSmart Dana. He’s got it all on video, too. All 38 hours of it over 13 episodes! [David]&#82… ...

Note about this one: the kid doing a book report is using a CoCo 3 attached to a TV, which accounts for why the word processor looks so horrible. It's likely a 32- or 40-column display, meaning ...

If you’ve been using Microsoft Word for the past quarter of a century, it can seem like Word has always been the top dog of the word-processing world–and for years, it’s been incorporated ...