> On Sep 10, 2017, at 5:24 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
>> then..... who was..... the TRUE first?
>
> Michael Shrayer's girlfriend?
> And what motivated him to write "Electric Pencil"?
> Jerry started using it early on, but he was NOT the first user of it.
>
> Before Electric Pencil, what microcomputer word-processor programs preceded
> that? I seriously doubt that Michael Shrayer was the only one to write one.
>
> What word-processor programs existed prior to micros?
WPS-8, of course. Wang had word processors in that same era. Then there is
the MT/ST which I think is older still. And if you define it as "computer
based text editor" then you'd go back at least to TECO, which first appeared on
the PDP-1, so that would be early 1960s.
paul
