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Subject:RE: old school From:"AL Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 20 May 2008 10:57:00 -0400
DBaseII, Aldus Pagemaker, Wordstar, Mulitmate, Visicalc, Apple I, PDP1134,
PDP1170, Octal tape readers, tube radios, the first chips (AND and OR gates,
Flip-Flops, and Inverters were all that was available in the beginning-late
1960s), MS-DOS2.11, 4.77 MHz XTs before hard drives....and the list goes
one. It has been a wonderful and exciting ride being part of an industry
that moved from vacuum tubes and paper tapes to SOCs and terabyte
hard-drives.
I moved from engineering to technical writing back when the IBM Composer was
the output tool and layout was on blue-lined card stock. I still have my
Xacto knife and a there's a portable waxer and a few sheets of rubylith in a
box somewhere.
Al Geist
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