I did not know what to with all that space!
Jason Moore said:Here's my receipt for my very first computer lol.
What a beast, I remember upgrading my 386 to 2Mb of RAM and the second 1Mb SIM cost me a $1000 LOL
Chris Wills said: Quote Can anyone say, Xerox Ventura running on the GEM extension to DOS? That was actually the first piece of software I purchased for my then new computer in 1989. Yep that was the one Mike, remember embedding all your codes in the text file before you opened it in Ventura and then taking your files to the Linotronic and copying them to LPT1 from your floppy disk to get your bromides for paste up?
Quote Can anyone say, Xerox Ventura running on the GEM extension to DOS? That was actually the first piece of software I purchased for my then new computer in 1989.
Yep that was the one Mike, remember embedding all your codes in the text file before you opened it in Ventura and then taking your files to the Linotronic and copying them to LPT1 from your floppy disk to get your bromides for paste up?
Hi Chris--I actually was using databases to get text into VP before DatabasePublisher.
VP tagged text is roughly equivalent to both QXP's and ID's tagged text today. Easy to write routines to add appropriate tags to an exported database. That's one half of what my business was all about. That and writing software/hardware manuals. I was mostly glad when Corel bought VP. I wish they hadn't killed it. But hey, it wasn't my call and for some darn reason they didn't ask me my opinion...
I had two go-to vector drawing applications, both from Canadian companies. One was CD. Care to guess who the other company and their software was?
MikeWe said:-I actually was using databases to get text into VP before DatabasePublishe
DB's way over my head. We were using it to replace having to go to typesetting bureaus for our galleys. Who was the other canadian Coy?
Linky should go to a PC Mag page...
http://tinyurl.com/nqvb3cx
It was a long URL, made tiny.
Pages and great layer control before CD, linked text, hyphenation, kerning and other typographical control. Used it a lot...still got the original floppies from the first version and the 3.5" diskettes from version 2. And it was fast.
Chris Wills said:So much fun just a small niche of people doing this all over the world. We used to use Forox and Oxberry cameras, remember lightbox burn from retouching lith until the early hours of the morning? The staging of the events was the most hectic I remember having to change codes 30seconds before the speaker live... I was grey at 30. LOL
Luckily I hardly ever did live events - the one big one I did do ended in a 72 hour stint. Most of my shows were either for visitor centres or exhibitions. We did have very tight deadlines, but very few of those last minute changes.