Drewery Publishing

I first became aware of desktop publishing while performing a courier delivery in Los Angeles, 1985. Stopped at the intersection, I was drawn to the window display of a retail store. The displays were pretty impressive (the kind that brings out the toy-store kid in you). I pulled over and just stood window gazing for the next ten minutes at a sleek Apple monitor and its personal printer.  My life would started a love affair that would alter my perspective on entrepreneurship, and propel me tumbling onto this phenomenom called personal computing.

At this time in American business, the computer was a novelty only a few had access to, or need of. So they thought. Well before my fateful dirve by, the air courier service I worked for serveral years used a mainframe and terminals to compile delivery manifests, create quotes, and print alerts. We were also set up with a terminal connected to American Airlines that pulled-up flight information, reservations, and fares. I was so excited the day I learned how to retreive a map of German airports!

However, it wasn’t until the 1990’s that PC’s started showing up en masse within the workplace of American businesses. By then, I felt lucky that I had no known adversion or fear of computers, and so my natural transition into productivity software, enterprise systems, and electronic transmissions provided a natural segway to digital publishing and online communications.

~ by Rodney on August 31, 2006.