Originally published at: 50-year-old operating system ported to 30-year-old digital typewriter | Boing Boing
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Good old Control Program for Microcomputers 
I had that on my resume until about 10 years ago, no-one ever challenged me on it (and obviously I was never offered CP/M-related work, haha)
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At the magazine I worked for right out of college, half the editorial staff were on ancient CP/M machines running off floppies, used for nothing besides writing and editing copy using Xywrite, a basic text editor. A horrible OS for some sort of home-brewed PC-ish hardware, but cheaper than the TTYs hooked up to the Dec PDP-11 running a proprietary Compugraphics typesetting OS.
I so loved replacing that cluster of a mishmash with a bunch of Macs and a laser printer.
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Brother had a line of “smart” typewriters in the late 90s/early 00s that ran GEOS. Out of the box, not a hack.
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but that machine had 48K of RAM.
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