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I remember it well. We sold it at the Mac Emporium in New York City when I worked there in 1990. It was cheaper and easier-to-use than the gold standard, Quark
by marstall 5y ago
I remember it well. We sold it at the Mac Emporium in New York City when I worked there in 1990.
It was cheaper and easier-to-use than the gold standard, Quark. If I remember correctly it sold for $495 to Quark's nosebleed, "Pro"-only price of $800.
Being into the Mac in those days usually meant being into Desktop Publishing, to some degree at least. A printer was an essential peripheral, and having a copy of Pagemaker or Quark (they came on several 3.5" "floppies", which weren't floppy at all) marked you as a serious kind of guy!
- samstave 5y agoI hated Quark! PM all the way!
- bch 5y ago> 3.5" "floppies", which weren't floppy at all The storage medium itself, inside the (stiff) plastic case, was indeed floppy
- acomjean 5y agoMy mom did translations on an IBM display writer that used 8” floppies. They were the floppier big brothers to the 5.25 “floppies” of the Apple/commodore and early pcs. Those 3.25 had a much stiffer shell. You are right that the disks inside were the same material. Over $7500 in last century dollars for a device with 160kb. I believe it auto saved though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Displaywriter_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Displaywriter_System
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- rasz 5y agoThere was a way to do it on the cheap with Jackintosh. Atari ST + 640x400 monitor + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamus_(DTP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamus_(DTP) + $1300 Atari SLM605 laser printer was cheaper than just Apple LaserWriter alone.