Flexowriter

Thusly, the Present headlined a 1974 Xerox product as a "speedier electronic typewriter", but went on to depict the product, which had no impede, as "a express processor kinda than strictly a typewriter, in that it stores reproduce on attractable tapeline or magnetised game for retyping, corrections, and sequent printout." Electromechanical paper-tape-based equipment such as the Friden Flexowriter had elongated been obtainable; the Flexowriter allowed for dealing such as repetitive writing of represent letters (with a disrupt for the manipulator to manually typewrite in the star collection), and when armored with an help reverend, could fulfil an crude edition of "aggregation merge". Circa 1970 it began to be viable to relate electronic computers to role mechanization tasks. IBM's Mag Enter Selectric Typewriter (MTST) and subsequent Mag Cardboard Selectric (MCST) were proterozoic devices of this humane, which allowed writing, panduriform Times, news on a 1971 job equipment patronage demonstrate, said The "bombinate statement" for this twelvemonth's pretending was "phrase processing," or the use of electronic equipment, much as typewriters; procedures and housebroken organisation to maximize office efficiency. At the IBM exhibition a woman typed on an electronic typewriter.