Opinion We couldn’t. The operating system on our micro-computers (today known as PCs) was text-based DOS [disk-based operating system], so there were no images to grab. (You could use the DOS '>' redirect function to save screen text to a file, such as dir /s > dir.txt.) So, marketing firms would send out prints and slides of their software to show off the products, in the hope that we magazine editors would use them in their print publications. Marketing slide from Nth Graphics of its software running in AutoCAD A very few programs included a screen grab function. WordPerfect for... Read more →
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