>People did not program word processors themselves as they didn't exist, typewriters did.
That's funny. I had to laugh that off.
Now the type in magazines at the time were amazing - especially with error checking "co-routines" to make sure you did it right. But there were bugs in printed material that a month or two later you could fix from the errors section. Best use case of a subscription model assuming you didn't want to fix it yourself or redo it all etc...
Also as a side to that there was a barcode scanner for the code for a few publications.
I gave a used copy of a book so someone from HR there once. It was about industrialization. I hope they had time to read through it, if it even helped. It was a story of us and not to be overly afraid of it; takes time and adjustments was the thought when given. Always make it better.