RE: Pre-Xy

[Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx]

Title: Message



Now
I'm really confused! I received an off-group message saying that my posts were
plain text! arrrgggghhhh...I give up. Microsquish has beaten me...this
time!
 
-Bry
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Henderson

Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:44 AM
To:
xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Pre-Xy


My previous post is a good example of an email problem I've been
having. It's also a subject that has been brought up here before:
Whenever I reply to a post from this usegroup I make sure that
the format is plain text. But it never shows up here as anything other than
RTF...! If I send an original post, though,  it'll be plain text. Anybody
know what I'm doing wrong?! I mean other than the fact that I'm using
Out-Of-Luck...I mean Outlook.
-Brian H. 
(BTW...this time when I checked the format it said "HTML", so I
changed it to plain. My previous reply already said "plain" so I didn't change
anything. I wonder how it will end up)
-----Original Message----- 
From: Brian
Henderson 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:26 AM

To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx 
Subject:
RE: Pre-Xy 


Since this group seems to be made up, damn near exclusively, of
ex (and current ?) journalists, I'm wondering if anybody is familiar with the
machine I cut my teeth on. In 1987 I got a job doing paste-up, operating a stat
camera, and processing galleys produced by thirty technical editors using
standard typesetting language on a Hastech mainframe. I had never actually
touched a computer up until this time (although I had watched over my
brother-in-law's shoulder a couple of times as he wrote screenplays on a
Commodore...64? You could only see half a page wide at once...horrible!). I had
to use one of the Hastech terminals to send articles to the typesetting machine
and, often having large blocks of free time throughout the day, I managed after
five years to become an expert on the system. I sure loved that machine. The
terminal keyboard was designed exclusively for writing, and you could control
the smallest aspects of type production (I once re-created a traffic ticket
form, to see if I could do it - a very difficult job...and dangerous when used
in practical jokes. I'm sure I could have gotten in soooo much trouble). I still
miss it. But what I eventually discovered was that the particular operating
system we used (Crossfield) was designed for newspaper production. I'm curious
whether anybody else has worked on one of these monsters...and whether they
liked it (or not).
Brian Henderson 
Print Composition Dept.

Mitchell Repair Information Co. 
San Diego, CA