We're going to take a moment now to remember a pioneer of computer engineering. Evelyn Berezin died over the weekend at age 93. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: She was the daughter of a seamstress and furrier, ...

Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a half-century ago by building and marketing the first computerized word ...

The first word processor, as cultural critic Josephine Livingstone once wrote, was effectively “the human woman” — employed, as a secretary, to compose, revise and print reams of letters, reports, ...

Playing games and being productive are two activities that just don’t mix, but thanks to a Minecraft player that goes by the name of Koala Steamed, you can now construct a fort while you type up your ...

As someone with ADHD who writes for a living, I need to block out as many distractions as possible when I’m writing. I ...

Jay Nordlinger points me to an obituary in the New York Times a couple of days ago: Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from ...

Dedicated word processors are not something we see much of anymore. They were in a weird space: computerized, but not really what you could call a computer, even in those days. More like a fancy ...

Windows offers “WordPad” as the default rich editor. It works, but then it’s limited. I am sure there are many processors available, but what makes Jarte interesting is that it is based on the same ...

Writer online word processor, with a look mimicking DOS-based text editors running on a green-phosphor display, makes it easy to create and return to a text file, with no sign-in. Dennis O'Reilly ...

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QUESTION: I’m in the market for a new computer. Which processor I should be considering? ANSWER: The processor plays an important role in any computer, but the deciding factor is what you plan to do ...