On Apr 4, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: > 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 <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> >>> 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. >>> -- >> >> 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. > We used Quark Xpress, as well as Illustrator and PhotoShop. Quark was the gold standard in the ad biz until the InDesign and CS. Pagemaker and the early version of InDesign were used in some shops but never really scored big. But InDesign finally knocked Quark out of the box.
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