Word: markoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...halfway to where we want to be," says Hearst. John Markoff does offer insightful reporting on Silicon Valley, while Phil Bronstein has provided first-rate coverage from the Philippines. But the paper maintains only two bureaus outside the city, in Sacramento and Washington, and its overall coverage is a bit skimpy considering the large editorial staff (269 reporters and editors). Hearst does not lack experience, having worked as an Examiner reporter and editor for three years before serving as assistant managing editor at the company's Los Angeles Herald Examiner from 1978 to 1984. Nonetheless, he is criticized by staffers...
...great buy--for $1000 you can't even get an IBM Selectric typewriter," says John Markoff, West Coast editor of Byte magazine, another weekly journal for computer users. He adds that "it's not a mainframe computer on a desktop, but the Macintosh people did the most they possibly could within the price restrictions...
...great word processor, but it can only work on 20 pages at a time," Markoff says...
...color is a bogus complaint. Most color displays now available are so terrible you can't even do word processing on it," Markoff says. "If I had a choice between the high resolution of the Macintosh and poor color, I'd take the black and white...
...really striking thing about the Macintosh," Markoff says, "is that you can use it to drive a typesetter directly. No other computer can do that...