{"id":1099,"date":"2007-07-27T06:10:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2007-07-26T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T20:15:07","slug":"it-was-twenty-years-ago-today-part-li-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"It Was Twenty Years Ago Today, Part LI"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was Monday, July 27, 1987.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The storm had overshadowed one big bit of news; I’d landed some freelance work, writing a manual for some software for a company in Edina.\u00a0 It was going to be a month or so worth of work.\u00a0 The best part?\u00a0 It was going to be a princely $12.50 an hour!<\/em>.\u00a0 Other than the odd voiceover job, I’d never gotten more than $8\/hour in my life, for anything. <\/em><\/p>\n

It was\u00a0a long commute, made doubly galling by the fact that I’d moved to Saint Paul<\/a> just in time to get whacked at KSTP, from <\/em>a place that was probably a 20-25 minute drive from this gig.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The work was interesting – and utterly unlike anything I’d done before.\u00a0 For starters, I was writing on a computer.\u00a0 Not one of the DEC PDP 11\/44s I’d used in college, for everything from programming (I’d completed most of a Computer Science minor, before I decided that I hated it) to writing term papers (we used the roff<\/code> and nroff<\/code> text-formatting programs to print “pretty” documents on an NEC Spinwriter teletype terminal, at a stately one page per minute) – but the company sat me down behind a Mac.\u00a0 It was the first computer I’d touched in a long time, and the first time I’d seen a Graphical User Interface other than, say, in the movies.<\/p>\n

The commute was gruelling.\u00a0 It was blazingly hot, and with all the water soaking the region, it was one of the two most humid periods of time I can remember in my life.<\/p>\n

But I looked forward to a paycheck that’d cover more than bare subsistence for the first time in quite a while.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And that <\/em>felt good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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