Obituary: Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor (in 1969)

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby () henkel-wallace org>
> Subject: Obituary: Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor (in 1969)
> Date: December 11, 2018 7:49:57 JST
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
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> A fascinating story I had not heard before
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/obituaries/evelyn-berezin-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/obituaries/evelyn-berezin-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
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> 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 processor, died on Saturday in 
> Manhattan. She was 93.
>
> [...]
>
> In an age when computers were in their infancy and few women were involved in their development, Ms. Berezin 
> (pronounced BEAR-a-zen) not only designed the first true word processor; in 1969, she was also a founder and the 
> president of the Redactron Corporation, a tech start-up on Long Island that was the first company exclusively engaged 
> in manufacturing and selling the revolutionary machines.
>
> To secretaries, who constituted 6 percent of the American work force then, Redactron word processors arrived in an 
> office like a trunk of magic tricks, liberating users from the tyranny of having to retype pages marred by bad 
> keystrokes and the monotony of copying pages for wider distribution. The machines were bulky, slow and noisy, but 
> they could edit, delete, and cut and paste text.




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