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30 Years Ago, Aldus PageMaker Changed Life on Planet Earth

Edit Huffington Post 27 Jul 2015
image courtesy Jeff Cohen. Thirty years ago this month, the Aldus Corporation introduced PageMaker for the Macintosh, ushering in the era of "Desktop Publishing" ... Together, PageMaker and the Mac—coupled with the Apple LaserWriter—led to the disruption of three huge industries. advertising, marketing, and publishing ... Roger C. Parker, pioneer desktop publishing design, educator ... Parker ... John Fox ... Roger Parker ... So, what did you do? ... ....

Meet Hugh Forrest, Director, SXSW Interactive

Edit The Business Review 13 Mar 2015
Mar 13, 2015, 3.13pm PDT. Send this to a friend. Thank you for sharing. Your email has been sent. Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses).. Your email address.. Copy Me. Add a brief note. ... His father — also named — a Scottish-born University of Texas professor emeritus and world-renowned expert in genetics, had convinced him to buy a Macintosh Plus computer and LaserWriter printer to reduce costs at the Challenger ... ....

Zumigo To Present at Location Intelligence Summit

Edit Newsfactor 15 May 2014
Mr. Bakshi will present a session titled “Securing Commerce Using Location Intelligence” in the HERE Summit Track, in conjunction with Nokia ... Washington Convention Center ... Mr ... Mr ... Chirag also served as a General Manager at EFI where he established the very successful Network Graphics Server Business Unit; as Director at Apple for its LaserWriter line of products; and in Engineering at Rolm Corporation developing distributed PBX switch ... ....

>Happy 30th Birthday Apple Mac: You Were Almost A Huge Failure (AAPL)

Edit Seattle Post 23 Jan 2014
Tomorrow, January 24th, is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh ... Two days after the Super Bowl, the Mac would be revealed by Steve Jobs during Apple's 1984 Annual Shareholders meeting ... Used with a new software product called Aldus PageMaker (later acquired by Adobe), and a fast new printer called the Apple LaserWriter (both introduced in mid-1985), this new Mac launched the "desktop publishing revolution."...

Happy 30th Birthday Apple Mac: You Were Almost A Huge Failure (AAPL)

Edit Houston Chronicle 23 Jan 2014
Tomorrow, January 24th, is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh ... Two days after the Super Bowl, the Mac would be revealed by Steve Jobs during Apple's 1984 Annual Shareholders meeting ... Used with a new software product called Aldus PageMaker (later acquired by Adobe), and a fast new printer called the Apple LaserWriter (both introduced in mid-1985), this new Mac launched the "desktop publishing revolution."...

What do Steve Jobs and Portland’s Debi Coleman have in common as the Mac turns 30?

Edit Business Journal 23 Jan 2014
Wendy Culverwell Staff reporter- Portland Business Journal Email  . Twitter  . Google+ ... Debi Coleman, co-founder of Portland’s SmartForest Ventures, is one of nearly 50 former Apple executives who helped to launch the first Macintosh computer ... She helped develop and introduce both the Macintosh and the LaserWriter, later designing, implementing and even managing the Macintosh manufacturing plant in Fremont, Calif ... ....

Happy 30th Birthday Apple Mac: You Were Almost A Huge Failure

Edit Business Insider 23 Jan 2014
Steve Jobs.  . See Also. Tomorrow, January 24th, is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh ... The unveiling of the Mac was extremely dramatic ... "It is now 1984. It appears that IBM wants it all ... Used with a new software product called Aldus PageMaker (later acquired by Adobe), and a fast new printer called the Apple LaserWriter (both introduced in mid-1985), this new Mac launched the "desktop publishing revolution." ... OR ... ....

Macintosh's 100-day marketing blitz: After the applause, confusion

Edit CNET 23 Jan 2014
Macintosh marketing chief Mike Murray hoped that businesses would abandon their IBM PCs to join the Macintosh revolution, but it proved to be more difficult than imagined. by. (Credit. ). This article is part of a covering the beginnings of the Macintosh and its impact over the last three decades ... Hello, I'm Macintosh ... (Credit. ) ... ) ... It featured AppleTalk local area networking, a file server, and a networked LaserWriter Postscript printer ... , ... ....

Burrell Smith: Macintosh hardware wizard

Edit CNET 22 Jan 2014
Few in the public may be familiar with his contributions but colleagues say this brilliant engineer's importance to the Mac is akin to what Woz meant for the first Apple computers. by. Macintosh team members ... Following the introduction of the Macintosh, Smith developed the logic boards for the Apple's Postscript printer, the LaserWriter, and was working on Turbo Macintosh, a graphics board that interfaced with an internal hard drive ... , ... ....

Software wizards of the 128K Macintosh

Edit CNET 22 Jan 2014
Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Steve Capps and Larry Kenyon share their thoughts about developing the core software for the original Macintosh. by. Macintosh team members. Row 1 (top). Rony Sebok, Susan Kare; Row 2. Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson, Owen Densmore; Row 3. Jerome Coonen, Bruce Horn, Steve Capps, Larry Kenyon; Row 4 ... "The LaserWriter and desktop publishing finally gave us a beachhead for the Mac to where it would be successful."....

The Macintosh turns 30: Going the distance

Edit CNET 21 Jan 2014
by. (Credit ... Apple ... ) ... The Macintosh with the networked LaserWriter printer ... The combination of the Macintosh graphical interface, Apple's LaserWriter, AppleTalk networking and Aldus' Pagemaker software ushered in the desktop publishing revolution. A $7,000 printer with 128K Mac didn't make sense in short term, but it was sheer genius in the long term," said John Scull, who led the effort at Apple to make a business out of the LaserWriter....
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