On Apr 3, 2010, at 20:19 , paul stenquist wrote:
n Apr 3, 2010, at 10:26 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:42 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]
> wrote:
.. To run something like Photoshop 20 years ago you needed a
couple hundred
thousand dollar workstation. Very few places outside of scientific
establishments had those kinds of things to mess around on.
1984-1988: I was writing software to do what Photoshop does for me
now. It was a NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and my computer system
was a $30 Million dollar installation based on DEC VAX 780/785
computers.
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Nevertheless, PhotoShop 1, which was released in 1990, was written
for Macs. Not, as Peter said, for "couple hundred thousand dollar
workstations." No, it didn't have anywhere near the capability of
later versions, but we were able to use it effectively to create ads
and product brochures.
I would hazard a guess that you were also using my fave, Aldus
PageMaker 3.0 in conjunction with
Photoshop in digitally typesetting auto brochures, and perhaps Adobe
Illustrator if you needed any curly bits on the page.
Joseph McAllister
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“ The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
— Kevan Olesen
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