Learning About the Histories of Computerizing Publishing and Desktop Publishing, 2017–19
Learning about the histories of computerizing publishing and desktop publishing, 2017–19 David Walden Draft of June 30 This is my third TUG annual conference presentation about the history of publishing, printing, and typesetting. For TUG 2012 in Boston (where I live), I thought an appropriate topic was Printing & Publishing in Boston: An Historical Sketch (walden-family.com/ bbf/bbf-printing.pdf). This kindled an interest in digital typography history; thus, my topic in 2016 in Toronto was An Informal Look into the History of Digital Typography (tug.org/tug2016/walden-digital.pdf). I then hoped to spend some time expanding my 2016 paper into a small monograph, but first an opportunity came for me to learn a lot more about the history of digital typography. 1 Desktop publishing meeting I was invited to be an observer at a two-day May 2017 meeting at the Computer History Museum of pioneers of desktop publishing (DTP) (history.computer.org/annals/dtp). Pioneers in attendance at the meeting were Chuck Bigelow (Bigelow & Holmes type design studio), Paul Brainerd (Aldus), Liz Crews (was Liz Bond, Xerox PARC and Adobe), Charles Geschke (PARC, Adobe), Steve Kirsch (Frame Technology), Don Knuth (Stanford, TEX), Butler Lampson (PARC), Lee Lorenzen (Ventura Software), John Scull (Apple), Jonathan Seybold (ROCAPPI, Seybold Publications and Seminars), John Shoch (PARC), Charles Simonyi (PARC, Microsoft) Bob Sproull (PARC), Larry Tesler (PARC and Apple), Johm Warnock (PARC, Adobe), and Richard Ying (Atex). The meeting was organized by Burt Grad, co-founder of the museum’s Software History Special Interest Group, and David Brock, director of the museum’s Center for Software History.
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