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

[jsalzman at gmail.com]

C64 computers and 1702 monitors worked well in a business environment on
the Halt and Catch Fire series. 😎

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 6:31 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>