I miss OS 9
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- Spookytim0
"I miss working on paste-up boards with letraset and rubylith"
Ah fuck it, if we're going to do this properly: I miss making halftones on a PMT machine. Letratone LT51 was the correct 20% tint for Grimley JR Eve's ad border in the Birmingham Evening Mail. My boss was too tight to keep buying new sheets of it so he used to make me keep one sheet pristine and make PMT copies of it. That was surely the 1985 equivalent of ripping images off via Google.
And then there's the great MANUAL vs ELECTRIC war of PMT machines. My first ever feeling of "progressive technology cynicism" when the manual hand-cranked PMT machines got superceded by push button electric ones. I operated a manual. Those Electric ones were WAY too complicated and unreliable.
I knew nothing good would come of technology way back then. AND I WAS RIGHT!
DAMN YOU ALL!
*Waves shotgun around the room and dribbles.
- "PTC".
I am an acute sufferer.Spookytim - *hides.JerseyRaindog
- "PTC".