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... processors and other specialized computers intended to handle specific tasks ... WORD PROCESSING If you're a professional writer , or if you have a business ... processor , is two hundred dollars cheaper than a comparably equipped IBM ...
... processors and other specialized computers intended to handle specific tasks ... WORD PROCESSING If you're a professional writer , or if you have a business ... processor , is two hundred dollars cheaper than a comparably equipped IBM ...
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... word processor , now four years old . Newer word processors are much cheaper and some- what smaller , and offer many features that my Olivetti lacks . But after four years , there has been no development sufficiently com- pelling to ...
... word processor , now four years old . Newer word processors are much cheaper and some- what smaller , and offer many features that my Olivetti lacks . But after four years , there has been no development sufficiently com- pelling to ...
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... Processing , Word Word - processing technology has been around for more than ten years , but it's only now becoming popular . A word processor looks like a typewriter with a TV screen . As you type , words appear on the screen , instead ...
... Processing , Word Word - processing technology has been around for more than ten years , but it's only now becoming popular . A word processor looks like a typewriter with a TV screen . As you type , words appear on the screen , instead ...
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