Dear Collegues in Communications Areas:
Sometimes people ask, what were computers used for as far as text before email and word processing?
I came upon a 1981 published mock epic poem of mine still on The Net and which is some aspects is e-documentary, and prefaced later times when such applications as legal and business etc. began to do concordances and indices from input electronic documents.
To read "Concordiad," and share any thoughts - offline if you wish - scroll down a bit; thought you might like to visit the final edition of SIGLASH (Assoc. For Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Language).
'Where did all these folks go? No one is saying; someone must know'.
Manysmiles, LDMF.
Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff