• grue@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I was only a kid so I didn’t understand how big a deal it was, but I distinctly remember “mail merge” being advertised as a ‘killer feature’ of word processing software back in the early '90s.

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      18 days ago

      Funny enough I have a pretty advanced typewriter with many word processor functions from the 90s. It has mail merge, believe it or not. I found it in front of someone’s house on large trash day and bought new ribbons for it.

      Only thing I couldn’t get to work is the floppy drive, but it is super neat watching it print out what I’ve typed on the tiny screen into two columns.