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by jarfil 2513 days ago
At some point there used to be electric typewriters with a 1 or 2 line buffer that they'd show on a black and white LCD. I don't know whether they had a spellchecker, but it wouldn't be hard to add one.
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Except, you'd need ~50KB of ROM to store an English dictionary. This figure comes from the original UNIX spell program, which employed advanced compression techniques to fit into a 64KB memory footprint: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1095395
They were definitely available in the early eighties: https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/23/business/typewriters-of-e...
It would if they didn't have sufficient compute, RAM, ROM.

Something that can buffer and edit 2 lines (~160 byte, and not necessarily 8-bit ones either) does not necessarily want to add hundreds of kilobytes of dictionary and the code to look things up in it.

There were electronic typewriters with spell and grammar checking.