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John McCarthy & Roland Silver Write "Colossal Typewriter," One of the Earliest Computer Text Editors

12/1960
Digitial Computer Corporation PDP-1 at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA.
Digitial Computer Corporation PDP-1 at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA.

Colossal Typewriter, a program written by John McCarthy and Roland Silver running on the DEC PDP-1 at Bolt Beranek and Newman in December 1960, was one of the earliest computer text editors, primitive forerunners of word processing programs.

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