tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post6124262641994004348..comments2024-03-28T12:16:58.318+00:00Comments on Paul's Beer & Travel Blog: How I got into Beer Writing – Part OnePaul Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-4267956827987796842016-11-17T20:56:50.596+00:002016-11-17T20:56:50.596+00:00“Tell the kids that now and they won't believe...“Tell the kids that now and they won't believe you”. Reminds me of the famous Monty Python “Four Yorkshiremen” sketch!<br /><br />Seriously, technology has moved on so quickly over the past quarter century that the kids of today almost certainly wouldn’t believe people had to literally cut and paste articles and news items together, before they could be printed.<br /><br />I will be coming onto DTP in the next part of the post m.lawrenson, but when I think of my old Amstrad computer, with twin 5¼ inch drives, but no hard-disc, and my noisy dot-matrix printer, which seemed to shake the whole house, even those early days seem a completely different world.<br />Paul Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-27754965969536810042016-11-17T08:45:25.253+00:002016-11-17T08:45:25.253+00:00I joined the Labour Party in 1987 and in 1990 went...I joined the Labour Party in 1987 and in 1990 went to college in Stoke, where I joined the Labour Club at the poly. I spent countless hours manually cutting up and pasting articles for newsletters, posters etc. before photocopying them, as well as turning the handle of the duplicator and guillotining leaflets in the Labour Party offices in Stoke. Tell the kids that now and they won't believe you...Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310220100267028274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722137562852954269.post-26239414322373267902016-11-16T22:43:05.468+00:002016-11-16T22:43:05.468+00:00Ah, the old days. I remember some of this when I ...Ah, the old days. I remember some of this when I was a kiddywink back in 1993. Things had moved on a bit by then. But only slightly.<br /><br />I produced my zine on an Atari ST, with some DTP software I got free on the cover disk of a magazine. Being old software even then (copyright date was 1987), the interface was somewhat clunky and it was easier to type the words into a word processor and import the text for layout. It's graphical capabilities were nonexistent, so I had to leave blank spots (carefully measured) for any pictures (physically pasted in later) I required. Each page took about 3 disk swaps to compile (512k wasn't a lot of working memory even then), and about 5 minutes to print out on my hilariously noisy 24-pin dot matrix printer.<br /><br />I then took it to the local printers. Sadly, no friendly off-schedule contact for me. No, I manually photocopied my A4 work (reducing it to A5), and stuck to my painstakingly worked out pagination formatting. It took ages. I then went home, and manually collated them, and stapled the sheets together using a mini-stapler and a polystyrene block. The edges were never level as I had no trimmer.<br /><br />It brought you close to your product, but by god was it a pain in the arse.Lizard Seerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07497330695288945161noreply@blogger.com