A computer that is specialized for word processing functions. Years ago, Wang Labs made its mark with dedicated word processing machines; however, after personal computers began to infiltrate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to do more with your consumer gadgets. What I am writing on right now should not exist. It’s audacious in its ...

Jay Nordlinger points me to an obituary in the New York Times a couple of days ago: Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter ...

IBM engineer Leon Cooper helped develop the Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter, or MT/ST, the first electronic word-processing machine, beginning in the late 1950s. The Lexington-made product was ...

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 ...

With Phraseology 2.0, developer Greg Pierce has made a definitive case for URL schemes, the trick that he invented with his Drafts app to let iOS apps talk to and send data to each other. While ...

The "Game of Thrones" author confesses on a chat show that he writes his best-selling books using WordStar 4.0 on a DOS machine. So don't distract him! Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV ...

Sometimes recent historY is the hardest to see. Consider the computer and its word processing software — programs like Microsoft Word that allow us to write letters or resumes or, for professional ...

“Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin does his writing on a processing system from the 1980s. Given the success of his novels, and wildly popular HBO show adaptation, I don’t think it’s hurt him ...

If you're one of the 6.6 million people who watch "Game Of Thrones" or have bought any of the 24 million copies of "A Song Of Ice and Fire" that are in print, you've spent hours inside the mind of ...