As mentioned, the story about helping distribute the Future brought about by the LaserWriter is going to have a number of chapters. It’s long enough that it merits a table of contents:
- The IRS tax form
- Xerox fumbles the future, again
- A little company called Adobe Systems
- A little network called AppleTalk
- A sales conference in Hawaii
- Technical difficulties
- Apple’s most powerful (and expensive) computer
- A not-so-epic ad
- The Macintosh Office
- Desktop Publishing
It may take a while to get through all this. To whet your appetite, an interesting tidbit about the LaserWriter: “LaserWriter” was not its original or preferred name. “LightWriter,” however, was already taken.
