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I ran a program called Ventura Publisher for desktop publishing. It ran in the operating system of Gem, invented by a team that had worked for Xerox (PARC) and the inventor of the mouse, and the graphic interface. Gem was from some guys that left Xerox, and took what they had learned. Of course both Mac and Microsoft went to see demos on the stuff Xerox was doing and their mouths feel open. Microsoft made a mad dash to beat Mac to the market with Windows and released Windows that was full of bugs, and slow, but it did hit the market before Macintosh. Of course Mac had Steve Jobs and better design crew.
I got into computers in the early 80s first with a Commodore Vic 20 than the Commodore 64. The C-64 got me into modems at 300 Baud, and I got online with Compuserve in 1983 and bought a pair of jeans. Then I got my first Compuserve bill, and dropped that and found the bulletin boards. I even ran a BBS for PCA for several years for the newsletter editors.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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