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...Harvard archives, one can see examples of the posters from pre-desktop publishing Harvard: clean, elegant composition, perhaps a simple logo, and all the pertinent information. A far cry from the font-crazy ravings of today that, in their witty enthusiasm, often leave off important pieces of information. There are too many organizations promoting too many things. As students sink in information overload, organization's sink into the muck of cheap puns. Their audience, ever more weary of the insipid posters and T-shirts that have become inescapable, get even harder to reach. And so the cycle continues...
These days, I am generally regarded by my friends as the one to call when their Macs crash. I can talk SIMMs, SCSI ports and partitioning with the best of them, and I actually do rebuild my desktop on a regular basis. As I was babbling happily away to my friend Rebecca last year about expansion cards versus junking her old SE, she looked at me and said: "You know, Lori, on the surface you're this mellow History concentrator who writes for the Crimson, but inside there's computer geek just dying...
Typesetters, oh ye privileged generation of desktop publishers, are what people used to produce books and newspapers before the invention of the Laserwriter. At Garfield, we would send our files through a large series of cables and buffers to a machine about the size of a refrigerator turned over on its side. The machine would spit out neatly typeset copy onto a canister of photographic paper, which we would then feed through a developer and hang up to dry. At least, that's how it was supposed to work. But typesetters are not as simple as Laserwriters, and whatever could...
...PS/ValuePoint: reasonably priced desktop PCs from the Big Blue. Best of all, you get IBM's unbeatable customer service...
...Consider purchasing a notebook computer. A note-book computer is a complete computer system you can carry in one hand. They may cost more than comparably equipped desktop systems, but not much more. What's best about them is that they are easy to store and are very portable. They also tend to be more solidly built than their desktop counterparts...