On Jul 14, 2014, at 8:46 PM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 05:00:36PM +0000, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>> old old school, I have sub2ps which is a program that will produce
>> nice postscript subsector maps in the LBB style from a text file.
>>
>> <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/tprogs.html>
>
> One nice thing about Postscript is that it's a programming language in
> its own right.  For one project long ago, I wrote a sector hex mapper
> in Postscript: put the data in tables within the file, and sent the
> thing straight to the (Postscript) printer.

yeah I remember the ‘Apple Corner’ in the late, great Computer Shopper, back in the mid-80’s when it was an inch and a half thick 5 pound monthly behemoth.

Cannot remember the guy’s name, but he had a regular column, writing PostScript programs to run on a LaserWriter he was bit-banging through the game port (!) on an Apple II.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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