At 06:20 PM 7/6/04 -0700, Mark D Lew wrote:
>I could go on and on about this, but I'm sure that's plenty.

It was interesting.

It sounds like you come from the era when "typesetting" was already making
its way into the digital domain. I come from hand-setting steel type,
linotype (etaoin shrdlu, which I never mastered), copper plates and picking
the dots up by hand after dropping one on the floor, the IBM Selectric
Composer (omigawd; ever try to fix one out of alignment?) workin on
Multilith paper plates, the Varityper that always broke down, the
Addressograph's attempt that also crashed and burned, and (later, just
before I left the graphics design field the first time) optical typesetters
that were being used by the GPO.

I missed your era entirely! Coming into DTP in 1992, I found the whole
thing a joy. I was *so* happy to leave behind all that other stuff! 

Dennis


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