“Another TX-0 hacker devised what was essentially the first word processor, a program that allowed you to type in your class reports and then format the text for output on the Flexowriter. Since it made the three-million-dollar TX-0 behave like a three-hundred-dollar typewriter – much to the outrage of traditionalists who saw this, too, as a ludicrous waste of computer power – the program became known as Expensive Typewriter.”

“Another TX-0 hacker devised what was essentially the first word processor, a program that allowed you to type in your class reports and then format the text for output on the Flexowriter. Since it made the three-million-dollar TX-0 behave like a three-hundred-dollar typewriter – much to the outrage of traditionalists who saw this, too, as a ludicrous waste of computer power – the program became known as Expensive Typewriter.”

— M. Mitchell Waldrop