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Subject:Re: old school From:voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com> To:chrismorton11 -at- gmail -dot- com Date:Tue, 20 May 2008 08:28:17 -0400
Heh. I remember the day I reformatted all my Aldus PageMaker disks to use in
my Roland D20 synthesizer.
-Wendy
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> Taking my wife and kids through the Smithsonian a few years later, I was
> amazed to find a full set of Windows 1.0a on 5-1/4" floppy disks in a glass
> display. I told them I still had my copy, which—along with the first
> edition
> of Aldus PageMaker—pretty much launched my career as a trainer and
> technical
> writer. Prior to that I had spent 12 years in advertising sales, where the
> Xacto was KING and the Compugraphic 9600 was something out of the future.
>
>
>
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