Electronic word processors such as the Sharp Font Writer FW-760 had taken the place of electric typewriters but were soon in turn replaced by the word processing software. The Sharp Font Writer FW-760 was a small portable electronic word processor with a number of different innovative features including eight different applications (word processor, spreadsheet, address book, label printing, utilities, multilingual translator, card printing, and clip art) as well as a DOS-compatible floppy disc drive for unlimited document storage. A novel feature of the Sharp Font Writer FW-760 was the multilingual document generator, which converted from a series of document templates into French, German, Italian or Spanish.

This represents one type of electronic writing machine available in the late twentieth century to both the domestic and office markets, when electric typewriters were replaced by the electronic word processor, which was soon in turn replaced by word-processing software. All three “word processing” technologies overlapped at the end of the twentieth century soon to be almost completely replaced by word-processing computing software.