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Library Systems Newsletter [July 1982]

Datapro, the New Jersey research firm which specializes in user surveys of office equipment has completed an Honor Roll of Word Processing Systems. A rating was determined for most of the more than 150 word processing systems on the market in 1981 but only the following machines, each rated by more than 50 users, received an overall satisfaction rating of 3.3 or better against a scale of 4.0 points and no single rating lower than 2.7:

Philips Micom 2000/20013.6
Lexitron 1202/23033.5
NBI 30003.5
AS Dick Magna SL* 3.5
CPT 8000/81003.4
Lanier "No Problem" 3.4
IBM OS 6/450 3.3
While Wang achieved a high overall rating as a company (3.3), none of its systems made the Datapro Honor Roll.

The survey is scheduled to be repeated in late 1982. Given the dynamic nature of the word processing market, there is every reason to believe that the rankings of the companies will change. Multi terminal system

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Publication Year:1982
Type of Material:Article
Language English
Published in: Library Systems Newsletter
Publication Info:Volume 2 Number 07
Issue:July 1982
Page(s):54
Publisher:American Library Association
Place of Publication:Chicago, IL
Notes:Howard S. White, Editor-in-Chief; Richard W. Boss, Contributing Editor
Company: DataPro
Subject: Word processors
ISSN:0277-0288
Record Number:3833
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Date Created:0000-00-00 00:00:00
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