On 5/12/23 11:35 AM, Justin Taylor wrote:
I think work environment is often overlooked or under-appreciated.
Very true. I spent the last two years of the 1980s working in a place
where I was underappreciated and blamed for hidden flaws. When I left,
it had started to affect not only my mental health, but my physical
health as well.
I've now spent over a quarter-century at Touchtone, and while it hasn't
been without problems, it has never even remotely become a threat to my
mental health, much less physical.
Something else that occurs to me (regarding a place where I spend my
Saturdays working without pay, and making several in-kind contributions
per year, namely, the International Printing Museum, in Carson, California):
When I demonstrate a Linotype machine, century-old technology invented
in the day (as I am wont to put it) "when a digital computer was a guy
counting on his fingers," yet *using a binary code* to sort the
matrices,* the visitors are generally amazed, and none more than the
kids and the computer geeks.
Just because an IBM Midrange box doesn't have a GUI, and uses languages
that have been around, in some form, since the 1960s, doesn't mean that
the kids won't embrace it, if it's presented right.
--
JHHL
midrange.com
