In the days of character displays and no multitasking, WYSIWYG as a concept was still a long ways off. has a soft spot for old word processors and the journey they took over decades, and he walks through the Olivetti ETV 2700. Today, word processors and digital documents are so ubiquitous that they are hardly worth a thought, but that didn’t happen all at once. The world once ran on hardcopy, and when the digital age started to bring new tools and ways of doing things, documents were ripe for change.
