RE: RE: old school

["Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

John Hedtke wrote:

"HA!!  When I was contracting for Boeing, >>WE<< had to stomp out 
individual characters with our bare feet on huge fields of snow up to 
HERE so they could be read by passing planes on approach to 
Sea-Tac.  The serifs were a real bitch to get ~just~ right.  We had 
one case where the manual was almost done and an unseasonable warm 
spell caused melting and refreezing, turning the carefully stomped 
out Times-Roman characters into bad Old English.  The whole project 
had to be scrapped."


WOW..I thought I had it bad when we had to use our own blood to crank out
procedures on "How to make Rams=-horn bows," and "Straightening arrows using
only a fire and your teeth." I was anemic for most of my early writing
career, or at least until they discovered chalk.

Al Geist
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