FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

USING MICROSOFT WORD

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What technology from the 1800’s defined most of the functionality in a word processor?
A
Printing press
B
Phonograph
C
Typewriter
D
Notebook
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Released in 1979 by Micropro International, WordStar was the first commercially successful word processing software program produced for microcomputers. It became the best-selling software program of the early 1980s. Its inventors were Seymour Rubenstein and Rob Barnaby.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first word processing device (a “Machine for Transcribing Letters” that appears to have been similar to a typewriter) was patented by Henry Mill for a machine that was capable of “writing so clearly and accurately you could not distinguish it from a printing press".

Detailed explanation-3: -The word processor was a stand-alone office machine in the 1960s, combining the keyboard text-entry and printing functions of an electric typewriter with a recording unit, either tape or floppy disk (as used by the Wang machine) with a simple dedicated computer processor for the editing of text.

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