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Subject:RE: Back to the Dark Ages. From:"Margaret Secara" <margaret -dot- secara -at- alphather -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:54:48 -0700
And when I worked at Great Wesern Bank, we used something called DOSF (pron: DOS-F), which was a text editor that used tags like <parg> and <list> and, well, you get the idea. I don't suppose there's anyone who even recognizes the name anymore. :) I took it off my resume ages ago.
Before THAT, when I worked for Burroughs, we typed text and tags into a file with 200+ lines of defines at the top, defining with the tags meant. Then the file was compiled like a programs and, well hmm... all this before HTML or Word. (Actually, some of it before there were PCs.)
I do not actually go back to the days of stone tablets.
Maggie Secara
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>>> <jgarison -at- ide -dot- com> Tuesday, June 18, 2002 >>>
I worked for a company like that once ... back in 1973 ... before there were
word processing programs! We did all our editing in C-Script ... Bonus
points to anyone who's ever used that!!
John
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From: Margaret Secara wrote:
We did indeed write stuff out by hand and give it to a word processing
secretary who typed it up, returned for corrections, etc etc...
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