1984

January 28, 2014, 05:35 AM

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The monthly excerpt from John Buck’s book, ‘Timeline’. Available at iBooks and Amazon in the months after Steve Jobs debuted the Macintosh, Paul Brainerd was trying to raise money for his software start-up. Brainerd and a small team of ex-Atex employees worked out of a Seattle apartment developing a PC based program that allowed complex pages of mixed graphics and text to be built then viewed on screen as they would appear when printed, something later tagged ‘what you see is wh...