In a world of technological Swiss Army knives, the Freewrite is a high-end oyster fork. It's a well-designed, lovable, woefully expensive tool made for one thing: Writing as you would before the web ...

Dedicated word processors are not something we see much of anymore. They were in a weird space: computerized, but not really what you could call a computer, even in those days. More like a fancy ...

Between social networks, video games and the endless void of procrastination we call "the internet," computers can make pretty poor writing devices. Isn't there something better? Insert Coin ...

It might seem like crowdfunding a portable word processor is very 1980s, but there's never been a better time for one. Plus, this "distraction-free digital typewriter" has a very modern twist.

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 typewriter but ...

Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a half-century ago by building and marketing the first computerized word ...

The key thing about new 'productivity' apps like Office for the iPad and Quip is that they move beyond the original idea of word processing, which simply created virtual versions of physical world ...

“Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing,” an upcoming book by Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum, will cover the first authors to use word processors and how they saw the tool in relation to ...

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