They are both capable of typing and laying out text. However a word processor can do far more things than a typewriter, so in that way there is no comparison between the two.
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IBM introduced the Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter (MT/ST) in 1964. The MT/ST was one of the earliest attempts to convert the regular Selectric typewriter into a word processor.
Open an existing document
It is a computer with word processing software or a dedicated computer (or typewriter) with word processor software embedded in a chip. Either way, it involves some type of computer hardware and word processing software.
A typewriter is a physical device that makes marks by generating a letter when a key is pressed or pushed. It has no memory of its own. A word processor has memory and allows you to edit or check a document before it prints the letter or output.
We would just go back to the typewriter which i don't have to imagine, I remember it clearly.
A typewriter. Manual typewriters are incapable of editing text or erasing mistakes.
Nothing more than a fancy typewriter with a display/word processor. Popular before the days of computers and Microsoft Word.
Typrwriters and word processors are both used to produce writing in a neat, mechanically produced form, unlike handwriting which is usually sloppier. The main difference between the two is that word processors also give you the opportunity to edit what you compose before you print it, whereas with typewriters, composition and printing are simultaneous.