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The Reference Desk => Organizations, Vehicles, Equipment => Topic started by: bayonetbrant on June 26, 2019, 12:49:42 PM
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https://www.janes.com/article/89509/us-army-conducts-operational-testing-of-version-6-configuration-ah-64e-apaches
24 years ago I was a part of the operational tests for the AH-64Ds when I was stationed at Fort Hunter Liggett. We were the OPFOR for those trials that started before I got there (Fall 94) and wrapped up in April or so of 95
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Did you do the training PPTs? :D
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Did you do the training PPTs? :D
This was so long ago that the DoD hadn't officially designated MS Office as the departmental standard, and every command still had local control of their internal software.
Most of our briefings were either WordPerfect or NotePad outlines printed on transparencies to project on the overhead, or were drawn using Harvard Graphics on Windows 3.1 (pre-Win95).
Honestly, if I needed any graphics work done, I did it on my personal laptop on SuperPaint and saved it in a file format that I could use on Windows machine and would email it to myself.
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WordPerfect? Harvard Graphics??? SUPER PAINT?!?
Oh, the humanity! ;)
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WordPerfect? Harvard Graphics??? SUPER PAINT?!?
Oh, the humanity! ;)
it was over 20 years ago and yes we're old and I'm going to go cry in a corner now
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Dude...Lotus Metro.
I got a free copy of that when I worked at Babbage's back in 1989 or so, for attending some presentation talk the Lotus rep was giving us.
Lotus Metro. ;D
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I was using Lotus Freelance to make charts in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Nice! :bigthumb:
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I was using Lotus Freelance to make charts in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Did you print them out on a dot matrix printer? 8)
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LOL
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I was using Lotus Freelance to make charts in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Did you print them out on a dot matrix printer? 8)
The first Quality Assurance manual I ever wrote, on a C64, using a program called 'PenPal', was printed out on a 9 pin dot matrix printer. This was in 1988, I had a computer at home before we had 'em at work :-))
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I was using Lotus Freelance to make charts in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Did you print them out on a dot matrix printer? 8)
Since you asked - My first work printer was an original ink jet. It had a little bladder in a plastic enclosure. When it got clogged, the user was supposed to stick a paper clip through a hole in the enclosure, push on the bladder, and force some ink through the nozzle. My office mate called it a stink jet.
Then I got a LaserJet +. I paid extra for the extra memory, and I bought a font cartridge to do equations. This was before WYSIWYG, but I figured out how to do equations by typing in the ASCII code corresponding to the upper and lower half of integral signs, capital sigmas (for sums), and all the greek characters. I remember typing up a big technical report on some analysis I did, and I built complex, multi-line equations. On the screen, it looked like a bunch a garbage text, but it printed out very nicely. I was really proud of this, and tried to teach the secretary, but it was too hard for her and she just wanted to continue to use rub-ons for the equations.
I was making a lot of plots, and that didn't work too well on bit-mapped printers with low resolution way back then, so I bought a pen plotter. I programmed it to plot all my data. I'd cue it up, and come back a couple of hours later with a bunch of plots. Those pen plotters were pretty cool.
Since you mentioned dot-matrix printers - another office mate had a dot matrix printer. She worked for the business office. Every monday morning she'd do a financial run of the previous week's charges. She'd cue up the job, and the dot-matrix would start printing, back and forth and back and forth all morning. She would leave to go chat with her friends while I was stuck there listening to it.