1983 my dad’s tool and die shop was using a PC with Autocad with MDA and CGA displays. We later put a 286 accelerator in it, and added serial ports to download jobs to the CAM computers. In 1987 I joined Simon & Schuster and they were doing no typesetting and very little layout on PCs or Macs. The few older machines they had were used mostly for editing text and to do back office tasks. A couple of years later we outfit the company with PS/2s, modern Macs and networking. By 1992 all the older machines were gone, along with the artists tables, all replaced by Mac workstation running PageMaker and later, Quark Xpress. PC with Windows for Workgroups were used for text editing and administrative business. On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 6:15 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 4/20/21 5:42 PM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/monday-memories/2020/07/13/monday-memories-i...
http://newsroomhistory.com/views-of-the-newsrooms/chicago-tribune-1970s-and-...
http://newsroomhistory.com/views-of-the-newsrooms/the-arizona-republic-1980s...
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Mid 80's Agreed, when I worked for maker of news communications equipment the 70s/80s images looked like what I saw at AP & the Wall St. Journal. They both used a lot of DEC equipment behind the scenes and special editing terminals for they're stories (the hugemoungous keyboards).
Early 80s As far as CAD, I recall having an early AutoCAD for the IBM PC while in college (helped create the computer labs at Middlesex CC). I recall that troublesome dongle that made things interesting. Many manufacturers had better CAD stations. Oddly enough I never learned CAD. I had learned to do it with pencil and paper. I probably still have the kit. :-)
Home computers were useless in larger businesses, no network (okay terminals to the mini/mainframe and then the network there). I recall the first IBM PC networks being netbuei, then arcnet then the gold standard 3COM thick net board (with the 68K processor ;-) ). In the later part of the 80's do I recall twisted pair (1BaseT) and token ring (4M) and the ever popular FDDI.
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