Word: processor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downtown Atlanta's Hyatt Regency Hotel late last week, the air was filled with hubbub--and a sense of desperation. A total of 31 public and private corporations had set up interviewing tables to try to fill some 2,000 white-collar jobs, ranging from electrical engineer to word processor to bank teller, in the city's central business district. Some of the vacancies had gone unfilled for six months or more...
...editor of Harvard Magazine, John Bethell, 53, spends much of his working day sitting in front of a word processor. He had not been very active out of the office either until, sometime around his 40th birthday, he decided to work on conserving "what physical health I had and even to improve on it, if it wasn't too late." Now he takes stairs two or three at a time, skis whenever he can and runs 20 to 30 miles a week, often jogging his five final commuter miles from Boston's North Station to his office near Harvard Square...
Then one winter afternoon, Toad came upon the marvel that changed his life forever. Toad found the word processor. It was to his Selectric as a Ferrari to a gypsy's cart. Toad now thought that his old writing machines were clattering relics of the Industrial Revolution...
...happy life, until one day, Toad, when riding his bicycle in the park, took a disastrous spill. Left thumb broken, arm turned to fossil in a cast, out of which his fingers twiddled uselessly, Toad faced the future. He tried one-handing his word processor, his hand jerking over the keyboard like a chicken in a barnyard...
Toad found himself seduced, in love, scribbling away in the transports of a new passion. Toad was always a fanatic, of course, an absolutist. He bought the fanciest fountain pen. His word processor went first into a corner, then into a closet with...