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Electric Pencil
Developer(s)
Michael Shrayer (b. 1934 – d. 2006)[1]
Initial release
1976; 48 years ago (1976)
Operating system
MITS Altair, Sol-20, TRS-80, IBM PC
Type
Word processor
Electric Pencil, released in December 1976 by Michael Shrayer, was the first word processor for home computers.
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