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Originally Posted by Cloud

the first word processor (at work) we got cost around $10,000 in around 1980.

For $2000 in 1981 you could have obtained an IBM PC with WordStar.

Meanwhile in the mid 1970s, SDS was manufacturing a network of word processors tied to a common hard disk with functions beyond what WordStar did. You may better know SDS as Xerox. SDS also provided time share that appeared on Xerox Sigma series mainframe computers in 1970. Better word processing technology was that easily available. "Fumbling the Future" explains why such technology was stifled mostly until 1990.

Apple's Lisa that appeared in 1981 - $10,000.