tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13520324.post6708493965585297936..comments2024-03-21T13:15:26.838-04:00Comments on The Rural Blog: Ky. publishing technology pioneer Gibson diesMelissa Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01558431327921705882noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13520324.post-6454433099244279522009-03-30T00:26:00.000-04:002009-03-30T00:26:00.000-04:00I can still remember very well the day in 1987 tha...I can still remember very well the day in 1987 that Jerry Gibson arrived in the offices of our newspaper, The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, to bring us into the age of desktop publishing by installing four Macintosh Plus computers, two 10-megabyte external hard drives, and one Laser Plus printer.<BR/><BR/>After working very patiently to teach my mother, who is now 83, how to use Microsoft Word and a very early version of Pagemaker, then made by Aldus, she was able to teach the rest of us with the help of numerous phone consultations and other visits by Jerry. Didn’t think the technology could ever get any better at that time! Also still in my memory is the phone call he made to recommend that we explore digital photography, which was pretty darn new in the late '80s.<BR/><BR/>Not to take anything away from those doing now what Jerry was doing then, but there never will be any better.<BR/><BR/>Ben GishBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15047936499817200331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13520324.post-25185777148125877192009-03-30T00:18:00.000-04:002009-03-30T00:18:00.000-04:00I can still remember as if it were yesterday the d...I can still remember as if it were yesterday the day in 1987 when Jerry Gibson arrived in the offices of our newspaper, The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, to install four Macintosh Plus computers, two 10-meg external hard drives, and one Laser Plus printer.<BR/><BR/>After working very patiently to teach my mother, who is now 83, how to use Microsoft Word and a very early version of Pagemaker, then made by Aldus, she was able to teach the rest of us and we had finally joined the modern world. Didn't think technology could ever get any better at that time!<BR/><BR/>Not to take anything away from those doing now what Jerry was doing then, but there never will be any better.<BR/><BR/>Ben GishBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15047936499817200331noreply@blogger.com