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OMG: Printshop Version 23

My first encounters with computers was in primary four, when I was 10 years old. My school offered computer lessons once a week, and most of us signed up. Back in 1988, the computers were extremely limited machines with no colour and we only had dot matrix printers.

The first thing I ever learned to use on a computer was a program called Print Shop. Basically, we learned how to create greeting cards, posters etc. Hell, on my eleventh birthday, I printed out a whole bunch of invitation cards created with Printshop.

I just found out that Print Shop version 23 has been released.

Version TWENTY THREE!!! I don’t know if this makes me feel old, or if this is some kind of record for software version release.

I think I’ll create the invitation cards for my birthday party with Print Shop v23, just for the heck of it.

haha.. i was doing LOGO, GWBASIC and PcBoardStory then.

Ah… Old times. Still remember the first screenshot and dozens of greeting cards printed from a faded dot-matrix printer.

It’s pretty amazing that they still keep their version number and not switch to 95, 2000, animal name (Ubuntu/Mac) or meaningless name (Vista) or meaningless acronym (XP)

Wow. But it sure gonna be a bitch to do a banner without tractor paper. Another software was Newsroom, that’s the grandfather of layout publishing software

omg!!! printshop is still around? i remember learning this application in my first computer lessons in primary school. haha, blast from the past indeed!