This same year I home built an Intel 286-based PC running DR DOS with the GEM GUI and started a desktop publishing business using Ventura Publisher 3.0. To keep costs low, I used Freedom of Press, a software RIP with Postscript emulation with output to an HP Laserjet hacked with a VisualEdge card that doubled its stock 300 dpi resolution.
I let my customers assume I was just taking orders and delivering their jobs because nobody believed a young Black kid had those computer skills, and also couldn't let them know I wasn't using a Mac because they were also brainwashed into believing only Apple hardware and software was capable of the quality work I produced.
I had to sell the business after SBA/SCORE told me desktop publishing wasn't a service or a product. The two white female UC students who took it over were supported by and approved for a business loan using the business plan I wrote by the same people who had already rejected it.
#Art #Science #Computers #History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWOtf4Ziso
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