{"id":34149,"date":"2024-02-03T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/?p=34149"},"modified":"2024-02-03T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T19:24:11","slug":"newsletter-issue-1048-before-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2024\/02\/newsletter-issue-1048-before-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #1048 \u2014 Before the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days, I didn\u2019t intend to become expert at using Apple gear. I didn\u2019t even intend to learn word processing or even typesetting. But the situations at hand forced me to adapt.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1960s, I decided to create a magazine devoted to my favorite subject \u2014 flying saucers or UFOs. All right, I guess I was sort of an eccentric teenager, but I preferred reading and writing to athletics, although I was a weightlifter.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, as an avid newspaper and magazine reader, I preferred justified text, something not readily accomplished on a simple electric typewriter, such as my SCM. So I followed the scheme employed by my friend \u2014 and first employer \u2014 Jim Moseley \u2014 someone well known among followers of UFO lore. And that meant typing twice, taking the page and entering the number of characters needed to fill a line. You then type again, adding extra spaces as appropriate, and, poof, you have justified text.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2024\/02\/newsletter-issue-1048\/#mac\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days, I didn\u2019t intend to become expert at using Apple gear. 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