I can’t even imagine working on legal documents during that time. It was hard enough with standard office documents. That must have been intense. You certainly remember the expectation and pride of getting it right the first time.
The surprising thing about word processors, even the most primitive, is they were products that automatically sold themselves to anybody who’d gone through the primitive horrors of typewriters and carbon paper. How well I remember it all because I’m one of the relatively few members of the transitional generation that started out with the old typewriters and went into the fully computerized systems of today. I even still have the old Smith Corona electric portable typewriter I used in my second and third years of law school.