[vcf-midatlantic] PRIVATE Re: Lend VCF Commodore 1702 monitors for TV show

[Neil Cherry]

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-inside-the-blade-building/stories/20200709081
> 
> http://newsroomhistory.com/views-of-the-newsrooms/chicago-tribune-1970s-and-1980s/
> 
> http://newsroomhistory.com/views-of-the-newsrooms/the-arizona-republic-1980s-and-1990s/
> 
> Not Commodore...

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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