[Dr. Sivana]

My first hand story is from the early 2000s. I was working for a small book publisher that only had computers in typesetting, the press floor, and order entry.

I was getting them up to speed, including the head editor (in her early 50s) who had never used a computer.

She generally picked up the principles of word processing pretty quickly, though she still wanted to put two spaces after the periods. One day, however, I saw her holding up a sheet of printed paper by the monitor.

It turns out she was holding the paper to try to match the size of the text on the screen to the size of the paper. I suppressed a chuckle, and explained things to her.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

I dont care what anybody says about not putting 2 spaces after a period. I know it makes me old, but it makes documenrs so much easier to read.

By the way, I’m 65, still working 45 hour weeks and can spend all day and into the wee hours working on railway signal systems, so don’t you dare call me an old fuddy-duddy!

And on the subject of Lotus 1-2-3, my first work computer was a IBM PC Jr. 1-2-3 was the only program, so I wrote a macro that turned it into a word processor. I know what I’m doing.