{"id":1225,"date":"2017-01-30T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2022-06-12T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T11:24:09","slug":"retro-scan-lanier-word-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1225\/retro-scan-lanier-word-processor","title":{"rendered":"[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> Lanier Model 103 Word Processor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AES<\/a>Large and in charge<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Well over a decade ago, I picked up a Lanier Model 103 No Problem word processor system (ca. 1978) and a matching daisy wheel printer<\/a> for free from a local hamfest<\/a>. I was lucky enough to get disks for it too, so I could boot it up and play around with it some.<\/p>\n

This No Problem system was a dedicated-purpose computer running an 8080 CPU and custom word processing or database software. It was aimed at small businesses and publications such as newspapers, and it cost accordingly — somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000 depending on the configuration. You can see what it looked like in the scan above — this scan comes from some literature that I received with the system.<\/p>\n

My Model 103 came equipped with two single-sided, hard-sectored full-height 5.25″ floppy drives, a green screen CRT, and a full-sized keyboard build into a huge fiberglass shell with a heavy cast-aluminum base. It must have weighed at least 60 pounds. It took up an entire shelf in my garage, and there it sat unused for half a decade.<\/p>\n

I meant to write about it on VC&G<\/em>, but never got around to it. I even spoke to a Lanier veteran about it via email. But it got put on the back burner, and eventually my garage ran out of space for my collection<\/a>, so something had to go. I picked the Lanier Model 103, took it apart for educational purposes (likely saved some parts), then recycled the rest.<\/p>\n

I still kinda regret getting rid of it, but man it took up a lot of space and something had to go. I did save the disks, though, if anyone needs them.<\/p>\n

[ From Lanier NoProblem Records Manager Flyer, ca. 1978 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

Discussion Topic:<\/strong> Did you ever use a dedicated word processor machine? Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Large and in charge Well over a decade ago, I picked up a Lanier Model 103 No Problem word processor system (ca. 1978) and a matching daisy wheel printer for free from a local hamfest. I was lucky enough to get disks for it too, so I could boot it up and play around with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[1429,1484,155,1485,1480,1481,1483,60,1482],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-1429","tag-aes-montreal","tag-flyer","tag-heavy-computers","tag-lanier","tag-model-103","tag-noproblem","tag-retro-scan","tag-word-processor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}