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 ...

The world once ran on hardcopy, and when the digital age started to bring new tools and ways of doing things, documents were ripe for change. Today, word processors and digital documents are so ...

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 ...

Dedicated word processors are not something we see much of anymore. They were in a weird space: computerized, but not really what you could call a computer, even in those days. More like a fancy ...

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 ...

Evelyn Berezin, a physicist, computer engineer and entrepreneur, designed some of the earliest computer systems for banks, airlines, stock exchanges and horse tracks. She was a female visionary in a ...

Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died at 93 this week. She was most known as the designer of the first true word-processing computer. But she designed many other innovative computing systems and ...

(1) A software application that is used to create and edit text documents. See word processing. (2) A machine dedicated to word processing functions. See word processing machine. THIS DEFINITION IS ...