re: #208 Single-handed sailor

OK, but we’re talking about the 1970s. Word processing equipment was not common then, least of all in run-of-the-mill government offices. Newspapers, magazines, etc., were still in the process of switching from letterpress to offset, and the word processing systems were centralized and very expensive. My college paper had only two terminals for copy entry. We used typewriters to produce our copy, and the editors gave the marked-up copy to Brenda or her assistant for typesetting.

When I started working in professional newspapers in 1978, we each had a dumb terminal on our desk to handle copy input, Smart terminal word processing didn’t become a thing until the 1980s.