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Re:VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and... by Stratoscope on Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:33AM (#28231332)
In fact, word processing was and is so valuable that you could buy a dedicated word processor long before you could buy a personal computer.

Behold the mighty Wang:

https://www.google.com/search?q=wang+word+processor&tbm=isch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_2200

Only $7400 in 1973 ($43,000 in today's dollars).

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Re:VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and... by drewzero1 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:19PM (#28236597)
I had a Wang PC-280 [0] (80286) that I bought at a rummage sale (mostly because I was a kid and thought the name was hilarious). It was an absolute tank of a machine. I also had a Brother WP-80 [1] which was a more modern word processor that also included a spreadsheet function.

[0] http://home.wxs.nl/~janvdv/wang/wangmuseumoverig.htm [1] http://oldcomputer.info/others/brother70/index.htm

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