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Article: `ART OF DESKTOP PUBLISHING' BEST LOOK AT NEWEST COMPUTER REALM
- Article from:
- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- July 23, 1986
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NEW YORK - After attending Comdex, the computer dealers' exposition,
last fall I noted, as some readers may recall, that the most manifest
trend to emerge in 1986 would be the popularityof desktop publishing.
So convinced was I of the strength of this trend, in fact, that I
initiated negotiations to purchase a startup magazine called Desktop
Publishing. Unfortunately, I lost out tothe microcomputing
publishing giant CW Communications. That corporation dropped the
magazine's original title and chose instead the rather insipid, if
punctuationally commanding moniker Publish!
I mention this episode not to tout any particular clairvoyance of
mine, but rather to expose two personal biases of ...