HISTORY

OF WORD PROCESSING

Ms. Panganoron

Diamond sutra

The history of word processing is long and colorful It developed not because of the availability of any device or machinery as technology was advancing then. Rather, it started out of the need of writers (not of mathematicians) to make the physical aspect of writing and editing automatic.

Young monks printing Buddhist scriptures using the rubbing technique, Sera Monastery, Tibet

DURING THE EARLY DAYS IN EUROPE . . .

No books Illiterate population Oral culture Priests would announce news at church Local priests usually would not own a bible Villagers would listen to a travelling reader No schools (except for elites) Feudal society Information controlled by church and aristocracy Limiting access to information enabled The church to maintain control over the masses

WHAT??? NO BOOKS?
Ok. There were some but these were mostly in Latin and possessed by the church and aristocracy. 500 1500 monks handwrote and copied books From 1100 universities paid scribes to copy books

LATE 1450S: JOHANNES GUTTENBERG

In the late 1450s, the movable type of printing was invented in Germany by Johannes Guttenberg and his associates

LATE 1450S: JOHANNES GUTTENBERG

LATE 1450S: JOHANNES GUTTENBERG

WHAT WAS THE FIRST BOOK EVER PRINTED? IN WHAT LANGUAGE?

1 In the beginning God Deus caelum et In principio creavit created the heaven 2 the earth. 2 erat inanis was terram.andterra autemAnd the earthet waste et void; and darkness was upon vacua andtenebrae super faciemabyssi the face of Dei ferebatur super of God et spiritusthe deep: and the spiritaquas moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And 3 dixitque Deus fiat lux et facta est God said, Let there be light: and there was lux 4 4 And God sawlucem quod esset light. et vidit Deus the light, that it was bona and God divided the light from the good: et divisit lucem actenebras 5 appellavitque lucem diemthe tenebras darkness. 5 And God called et light Day, noctem darkness he estvespere et and the factumque called Night. And manewas evening and there was morning, there dies unus one day.

The printing press made it possible to produce a large number of books (exact copies) in a short amount of time.

HOW DID THE CHURCH AND ARISTOCRACY REACT TO THE PRINTING PRESS?
Ignored it for aesthetic reasons and refused to place hand copied books alongside printed books. Tried to control it through licenses.

WHAT WAS THE EFFECT OF PRINTING ON LANGUAGE?

Latin was replaced by national languages Regional dialects became standardized Grammar, spelling and punctuation also became standardized

1867:
The first successful manual typewriter was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes with the help of Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soul (all Americans). But this model could print only on the underside of the roller so the typist could not see the typed document until it was finished.

Sholes and Glidden Typewriter

1872

Thomas Alva Edison patented an electric typewriter (no other information was gathered after this; it must have turned out to be not working)

1874:

The manual typewriter Sholes and Glidden Type Writer was made available in the market by a gun and sewing machine manufacturer E. Remington and Sons.

Sholes and Glidden Typewriter

1878:

The Shift Key was added to the Typewriter

The Remington 2 appeared in 1878 and was the first typewriter to have a shift key for upper case characters and figures.

1880

The typewriter model that could print on the upper side of the roller was introduced

1897

The Tab key was added to the typewriter

1920

James Smather invented the first workable electric typewriter

1929

The first Japanese typewriter was invented by Kyota Sugimoto in 1929

1935
IBM introduced the Electromatic. This became the first successful electric typewriter. It was popular in the business community as it greatly increased typing speed.

AFTER 1935
M. Shultz company introduced the automatic typewriter. This model made possible the automatic storage of information for later retrieval. This innovation was the greatest step from the typewriter to modern word processing.

1961
IBM introduced the Selectric typewriter. This replaced the standard movable carriage and individual typestrikes with the revolving typeball. Referred to as the golfball or wallnut.

1964
IBM introduced the MT / ST or the Magnetic Tape / Selectric Typewriter. This combined the features of the Selectric model with a magnetic tape drive. The magnetic tape became the first reusable storage medium for typed information.

The IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric typewriter, shown in this 1964 photo, was a precursor to the word processor: It allowed typists to create and edit a document before printing.

1969

IBM introduced the MagCards magnetic cards attached to the typewriter that recorded text as it was typed on paper.

Mag Card Selectric Composer

1971
The floppy disk or diskette was invented by IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart. This memory disk was intended for use in number computation only the type of data processing at that time.

1971
Toshiba JW-10 - the first word processor for the Japanese language (1971-1978 )

1972

Lexitron and Linolex developed the first screen-oriented word processing system before Microsoft existed (in 1972). It included video display screens and casette tapes for storage.

1973

Vydec manufactured the first word processing system using floppy disk to increase its textstoring capacity, and permit the creation and easy editing of multi page documents.

1974 - 1976

It was during the early part of this period that dedicated word processors were developed. These systems were hardwired meaning, their instructions and programs were already built into the equipment. The result was an equipment that was bulky and very expensive to upgrade, and whose programs were difficult to change.

1974

The dedicated word processor, developed in 1974, was devoted to word processing only.

1974 - 1976
1975 Smith-Corona Typewriter

1976

IBM engineer Alan Shugart developed the 5 inch disk drive and floppy disk for Wang Laboratories

1976

The latter part of this period also saw the most important development in the history of word processing: the advancement from hardwired software to software on disks (or disk programs). Because of disk programs, the development of word processing packages for use with general-purpose computers has been made practical.

1976
Altair programmer Michael Shrayer wrote the Electric Pencil which became the first actual word processing program for personal computers (PCs). The first computer word processors were line editors, software-writing aids that allowed a programmer to make changes in a line of program code.

1977

The completely assembled form of word processing packages using disk programs was made available to both corporate and ordinary individuals alike. This made the separation of the hardware from the software complete.

Brother WP-1400D editing electronic typewriter (1994) Image of a now obsolete hardware type word processor.

After this breakthrough, many word processing programs (or simply word processors) have been developed with newer and better features. Examples of these features are: spell check, mailing list, capacity to work on more than one document at a time on the same screen, among others. There was also the incorporation of bookkeeping and inventory functions, thus combining word processing and data processing, the result is called information processing. This innovation completed the marriage of the word processor to the computer.

1979

Wordstar was released by MicroPro International, Inc. developed by Seymour Rubenstein and Rob Barnaby. WordStar became the first commercially successful word processor for PCs and the best-selling program of the early 80s.

With the introduction of WordStar, several word processors have been released and made available for both business and personal use. Early word processors included: Apple Writer I Samma III WordPerfect Scripsit

1983

The word processor Word 1.0 was launched by Microsoft Corporation. It was actually the first application program created by Microsoft and the first among all applications with a GUI.

1984

Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows became the first commercially successful word processor for PCs in a windows environment.

TODAY

newer word processors with greater capabilities can be obtained from local stores or downloaded from the Internet.

MS Word 2003

TODAY

MS Word 2007

TODAY

MS Word 2010

OTHER WORD PROCESSORS:

MS Word 2003 for MAC

OTHER WORD PROCESSOR S:

OpenOffice.org Writer in Version 3.2

WORD PROCESSOR S:
KWord-1.4.2

WORD PROCESSOR S:
LyX 1.5

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Year 1867 ____ Invention Sholes and Glidden TypeWriter ______________________________, is the first successful manual typewriter Inventor(s) Christopher Latham Sholes _________________________, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule James Smather __________________________ _ IBM

1920 The first workable electric typewriter 1935 Electromatic _____ _____________, the first successful electric typewriter Magnetic Tape / Selectric 1964 __________________________ typewriter MagCards 1969 ____________, magnetic cards attached to typewriters

IBM

IBM

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Year 1971 1972 Invention Memory disk (or floppy disk) A word processing system which included cassette tapes ________________ for storage Inventor(s) Alan Shugart ______________________ Lexitron and Linolex