On Jul 15, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Bruce Johnson <johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

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

Don Lancaster..just ran across his name from something entirely unrelated, still has his circa 1994 web site up :-)

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
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Information Technology Group

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