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Wednesday, February 24, 2021
CONTINUITY: “The Magnetic Office”—IBM Mag Card Selectric Typewriter, 1969
If they can put a man on the Moon, they can keep a “girl” from having to retype the whole page when the boss changes one word! This seems laughably crude today, but it was a miracle compared to doing it all manually, and IBM's “user interface” for editing was pure genius.
Posted at February 24, 2021 16:09