FILE -- Redactron Corporation's Data Secretary, the first computerized word processor, on Long Island, New York, Dec. 20, 1976. Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled ...

Word rose to global ubiquity because it offered something unique. It was the first word-processing software to embody what Microsoft described as the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) design ...

First National City Bank (Citibank), Brown Brothers, Merril Lynch Pierce Fenner Smith. The word processor in conjunction with early business computers laid the groundwork for the surge in business ...

Word first appeared in 1983, an era when Intel's most popular CPU was the 16-bit 80286, RAM costs hundreds of dollars for a few kB, and Apple launched the hugely expensive precursor to the ...

Google Docs - the online staple for word processing that is up there with Microsoft Word in terms of capabilities; plus, it's all online, works well on mobile, and you get 15GB of free storage.

In an age when computers were in their infancy and few women were involved in their development, Berezin (pronounced BEAR-a-zen) not only designed the first true word processor; in 1969, she was ...