15 Dec
2018
15 Dec
'18
10:44 p.m.
Among her many achievements: While IBM had been producing word processors of a sort for a few years when Berezin developed hers in 1968, she was the first to use semiconductor chips to make a true computing system for this purpose. IBM's solution used a typewriter and a magnetic tape drive and was much less efficient to use. <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/evelyn-berezin-creator-of-the-first-word-processing-computer-dies-at-93/>