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Seniors: Do you remember using the Wang word processor in the late 70s and in the 80s?
I was thinking one night (wide awake) about the things I did as a secretary. Answering the phone with the lights that light up, typing forms with carbons on a typewriter, sending my Wang document to a printer across the hall to final print letters using carbon paper. We had color-coded carbons to determine where that copy was to be filed. I actually loved that job though it did not pay well. I felt proud to serve co-workers in my branch in the division. We were a team. Remember when supercopy was just the best feature? What are your memories?
Bert - Yes I used a dictaphone when I had an older boss who didn't use any of the new fangled stuff. I also loved the electric typewriters.
I remember hearing about the Wang Word Processor but I never used it on the job. I always used an electric typewriter. It was better than today's electronic keyboard, nobody had carpel tunnel syndrome. I did not like making mistakes when typing carbon copies. You had to stop and erase the mistake on each copy. I remember the copier machine produced wet copies that had to dry, not like the photostatic copies of today. I also remember typing a stencilled paper which you ran off on a mimeograph machine. I remember the dictaphone machine which had a cylinder and you slipped these looped magnetic covers on it and pressed the pedal and listened with earphones. I also remember the fax machines which very few businesses even had which created an image at the other end and you wrapped the document around a cylinder. There was the Burroughs adding machine which was electric before any calculators. Remember the IBM keypunch machine? It punched out cards with holes in it. I think they had data on them but I am not sure because I never did that job, but I remember keypunch operator was a job. We had file clerks, clerk-typists and secretaries and they were always women.
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