08-09-2017, 04:20 AM | #31 | |
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I knew one author who submitted a battered typescript in the mid 90s. He'd obviously been working on it for many years (numerous corrections on it). My first advice to him was to for God's sake get it typed into a computer file. |
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08-09-2017, 01:44 PM | #32 | |
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I was working off the bibiography. If the first part was published in 1980 that pushes that part back to 1979, at least. By the mid 90's no professional author had an excuse (other than personal choice) not to be working on a computer. Even Macintoshes could be had for under $2000 and PCs for $500. Plus cheap scanners with decent OCR could be had for $100. The early 80's and before were different: the earliest professiobal grade computers ran $3000-5000, the software ran $300-500, and printers $500-1000. You had to be an established professional with a good accountant to be able to justify that kind of investment. So yes: typewritten most likely. Good manual ones could be had for $69. |
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That was a kingly gift at the time I imagine. I mean the expense of getting them printed and bound couldn't have been cheap. I grant that small books have been around a while though too. Italic was created so that its creator could bring out the first 'pocket edition' of classic books. It also led to the need of 'reading the small print' on contracts. Most of the 20th century authors that I've read such as Bradbury, Asimov etc. would have used typewriters for writing their books. Piers Anthony in his book "Bio of an Ogre" talks about how he went from a typewriter to one of the early computers.
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