Reply To: 1970s Typesetting

Amazing! But I remember chiseling plates out of granite that we had to quarry ourselves! Using only our teeth! :)

No, actually, my background is all digital. But because my stepfather worked at Xerox PARC, I had access to laser printers and Alto computers. So I started “typesetting” around 1979. I remember my 7th grade teachers would never write edits on my school papers because they looked like they had all been professionally typeset. Old software such as Gryphon (color vector drawing program) and early color laser printers… amazing.

But later, I started collecting type paraphanalia. I have a small collection of wood type, metal type, photo type, and other fun things.