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FirstLight

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9. In the newsroom, mid-late 90's...

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Tue Apr 22, 2025, 01:04 PM

Apr 22

It was a fist gen Mac. black and white screen. If you didn't "save" throughout your writing, the "bomb" would go off and crash and you'd lose it ALLLL... it sucked! Bt the Graphics dept loved Apple, supposedly better for graphics programs etc... THEY had the Color ones with fancy big screens, lol...

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eww, keypunching. gah. AllaN01Bear Apr 22 #4

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