[Framers] OT: The history of PDF

[Frank Stearns]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Craig, Alison wrote:

> Wow - $695 in 1993!
>
> That rivals the $700 I spent on HP's first laser printer at about 
> the same time. (It printed in black at a whopping 300 dpi.)
>
> Were we rich or stupid? ;-)))))

Both?? We could charge clients relatively more for services in those 
days?

In 1991 I spent well north of $10K for a bare-bones Sparc workstation, 
and thankfully got a courtesy copy of FM3 and then FM4 because of the 
development work we were doing. Our products gave an assist to the FM 
Sales force as prospective FM purchasers would ask, "that's all well 
and good, but does this Framing-Maker thingie do this or that?"

We tried to have "this" and "thats" on hand to help out. For nostalgia 
and amusement, visit the "FSA Resources>Early Products" portion of 
www.fsatools.com for more history.

Frank

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