Expensive Typewriter
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Expensive Typewriter was a pioneering text editor program that ran on the DEC PDP-1 computer,[1] which had been delivered to MIT in the early 1960s.
Description
Since the program could drive an IBM Selectric typewriter (a letter-quality printer), it may be considered the first word processing software. It was written and improved between 1961 and 1962 by Steve Piner and L. Peter Deutsch. In the spirit of an earlier editor program, named "Colossal Typewriter", it was called "Expensive Typewriter" because at that time the PDP-1 cost a lot of money (approximately Template:Currency in 1963, Template:Currency in 2024 dollars [2]) as compared to a conventional manual typewriter.[3]
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- ^ "Expensive Typewriter" (manual) Script error: No such module "webarchive"., August 1, 1972, MIT
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."CPI adjusted dollar calculator". Retrieved Jan 12, 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."PDP-1 Price List". www.computerhistory.org. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
