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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

In the 90's friend of mine put a system together to demo to the cable companies for video on-demand. It was a file server for movies/TV. It used a mac so it could access and serve a 4TB raid. PC could not access that large of a drive back then.

When I had my first Mac was so happy when was able to get a 20meg hard drive. The single 3.5 400K floppy had to swap disks all the time. One for the program, one for data. Didn't have that with the AppleIIc, the 5.25 floppy was big enough for program and data. The first program to require 2 400K floppies was Pagemaker. Then the 400K disk was upgraded to double sided for 800K.

Had a 300 baud Apple modem. You sent AT to the modem to get it's attention for commands. Type ATTD for Attention Tone Dial, then the number. If you accidentally sent ET instead of AT it would reply "phone home". Learned to read at 9600 baud when got a 9600 baud modem. Also when listing basic programs it listed them at 9600 baud on the screen.

Was doing the typesetting for the company catalog. Started by just typing the text, added notes for the font. size, margins, and taking the pages to the typesetter. Would get the type in one column that had to be cut and pasted to make the pages. Then I learned the codes to set fonts and margins, etc and modemed files to the typesetter. Would get the pages with the columns of type set with the pages all layed out so all that was needed was putting in the pictures. Was writing a program to do WYSIWYG on the AppleII when I realized the Mac did WYSIWYG right out of the box and saved printer files that could be sent to the typesetter. Sold the AppleII got a Mac and have been using them ever since. At that time a PC system to do WYSIWIG typesetting costed $25,000 dollars.

In the late 80s had an Amiga. They did WYSI as well. Ray tracing could be done if you had enough time. The only issue was SCSI drives were finicky with the SCSI on the machine.