On Jan 5, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > For those you that are new to the computing world, PageMaker probably > is the "one" application that really pushed the desktop computer > revolution. Without it, desktop computers eventually would have taken > off in the business and home worlds, I think, but it would have surely > taken a lot longer. Many cottage industries sprang up because they > could afford to get a Mac and this program, and then the support > industries came to make those Macs running PageMaker run better.
Jerry, how about VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3? They were around before PageMaker and it seems to me they were just as influential in starting the industry. I will agree that PageMaker along with the Apple LaserWriter are what started the Mac and the whole desktop publishing industry. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
