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Subject:Re: What do you think? From:"Williams, Diane (contractor)" <Williams_Diane -at- DOTE -dot- OSD -dot- MIL> Date:Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:44:22 -0400
>>Remember self-contained word processors, the heavy boxes that had a wee TV
screen and a wee printer that you could carry around but all you could
do was
type and print stuff? I don't either.<<
Actually I do! I never used one, but sportswriters in the late 1970s
were using these things courtside to report on NBA (and other sports)
games. Folks without such modern technology were still Quipping their
typed copy back to their newspapers then too.
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