Word Processing Concepts and Careers
Bergerud and Gonzalez
1987
This one is another doozy from the technology pile. This wonderful choice predicts big things in the world of microcomputers. All of you folks “of a certain age” might remember word processors as those dedicated machines that were really souped up typewriters. Maybe this library would like to invest in carbon paper and an old ditto machine while we are talking technology!
9 responses so far ↓
Debi // June 1, 2009 at 12:22 pm |
Yeah, I went off to college in 1992 with my Brother Word Processor. Only one of my friends had an actual computer.
Hill // June 1, 2009 at 2:30 pm |
I just cleaned out the supplies cabinet in our workroom and found a box of carbon paper!
Cindy Dobrez // June 2, 2009 at 8:58 am |
One of my favorite quotes: “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”–Bill Gates, 1981
And, we had a teacher in the early 90s who proclaimed “Word processing is a fad.”
I’ve been booking talking a great historical fiction title for teens called THE BOY WHO DARED by Bartoletti and realized that when I described the hero typing up anti-Nazi newsletters on carbon paper I needed to explain to my students what carbon paper WAS!
Mark // June 3, 2009 at 11:43 am |
Oo, oo! Can I sniff the mimeograph fluid!?!?
marykelly48 // June 3, 2009 at 6:59 pm |
Today’s young people won’t even get that reference!!!
Mary
Tony // July 1, 2009 at 9:23 pm |
I worked as a word processor for from 1984 to 1992. It was a fun job. I miss those times!
Cathy // July 25, 2009 at 2:18 pm |
Mary is right…what’s mimeograph fluid? Guess I will have to Google it!
Marie // August 12, 2009 at 3:33 pm |
Ditto machine? hmmm, that smell…yum..Frankly, we used a Gestetner.
Lucy Fisher // August 13, 2009 at 1:56 pm |
I’ll let you in on a secret – word processors were actually computers. But people were so scared of computers back in the Olden Days you had to call them something different.