[rescue] what the heck is it

[Carl R. Friend]

    On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:

> Has a 'built in' (more like 'built on') screen.
>
> Has switches for 10 pitch/12 pitch
> 1/1.5/2 spacing and another I forget
> (they are on the monitor piece).
>
> So.... what the heck is it ?
>
> Is it a computer ?  Is it some sort of terminal ?

    It sounds like an early dedicated-purpose word-processor.  Things
like that existed for a while in the '70s and '80s.

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