<P> The IBM Selectric typewriter was a highly successful model line of electric typewriters introduced in 1961 . Expensive Typewriter , written and improved between 1961 and 1962 by Steve Piner and L. Peter Deutsch , was a text editing program that ran on a DEC PDP - 1 computer at MIT . Since it could drive an IBM Selectric typewriter ( a letter - quality printer ) , it may be considered the first word processing program , but the term word processing itself was only introduced , by IBM 's Böblingen Laboratory in the late 1960s . </P>
<P> The IBM Selectric typewriter was a highly successful model line of electric typewriters introduced in 1961 . Expensive Typewriter , written and improved between 1961 and 1962 by Steve Piner and L. Peter Deutsch , was a text editing program that ran on a DEC PDP - 1 computer at MIT . Since it could drive an IBM Selectric typewriter ( a letter - quality printer ) , it may be considered the first word processing program , but the term word processing itself was only introduced , by IBM 's Böblingen Laboratory in the late 1960s . </P>
when was the term word processing first used
when was the term word processing first used
in the late 1960s
in the late 1960s