It all sounds so labour intensive and daunting. I operated a Gestetner machine once to print out menus when I worked a couple of summers at a resort hotel. If too much wax was used it could get really gummed up. But that's as close as I've come to having to deal with the old technology. I also worked one summer in the early 70s for CP at Windsor Stn. in Montreal as a word processor when the technology was just emerging. | also got trained on a variety of electronic typewriters that would memorize a couple lines at a time. Within a decade, that technology would see a number of iterations before desktop computers made it obsolete. The first computer I ever worked on was a MAC SE when i started my first job in Toronto in 1988. Compared to our laptops, they were like Fisher Price toys!
I was a writer at a small audio-visual firm when the first office computers were appearing. I learned Wordstar (a clunky word processor) on a CP/M operating system that predated even MS-DOS. Mouses weren't invented yet, so to move the cursor you had to use arrow keys, and to load the program (or the file you'd created) you had to insert those big ol' 5 1/4"floppy disks).
It all sounds so labour intensive and daunting. I operated a Gestetner machine once to print out menus when I worked a couple of summers at a resort hotel. If too much wax was used it could get really gummed up. But that's as close as I've come to having to deal with the old technology. I also worked one summer in the early 70s for CP at Windsor Stn. in Montreal as a word processor when the technology was just emerging. | also got trained on a variety of electronic typewriters that would memorize a couple lines at a time. Within a decade, that technology would see a number of iterations before desktop computers made it obsolete. The first computer I ever worked on was a MAC SE when i started my first job in Toronto in 1988. Compared to our laptops, they were like Fisher Price toys!
I was a writer at a small audio-visual firm when the first office computers were appearing. I learned Wordstar (a clunky word processor) on a CP/M operating system that predated even MS-DOS. Mouses weren't invented yet, so to move the cursor you had to use arrow keys, and to load the program (or the file you'd created) you had to insert those big ol' 5 1/4"floppy disks).