Who will use one?

Abstract

Having now digested quite a lot of information about the hardware, what the equipment consists of, what it does and how it does it, let us now turn to the most important part of the word processing system — the people who are going to benefit from its use. What kind of a business is going to use this new generation of office aids? It is a common fallacy that only big business can gain from the use of sophisticated equipment. The need for word processors depends on the kind of work which is to be done — not on the size of organisation. I myself, for example, would have found a word processor invaluable during the writing of this book. A great deal of laborious retyping and correcting would have been avoided, or at least been made much easier if I could have proof-read, edited and amended each page on a screen before committing it to paper. As this applied to me, so it would apply to anyone carrying out any form of creative writing whether it be advertising copy, technical reports, or a Government paper on the Economic situation.