Coyote/Harris

No one in their right mind would marry Harris with Coyote as the frontend.
What is this, 1990?

 

The last paper I worked at (nine years ago) used Coyote. They also used pica poles, proportion wheels and paste-up boards. And using Quark to paginate was tantamount to a firing offense. I shit you not.

 

Ah, the Luddite Daily Parchment

 

Coyote, back in the day, was Da Bomb (of course, that expression didn't exist back in the day, but whatever).

It had one function I still miss, IIRC. You could have multiple save strings of text - you could save different files on keys a, b, c, 1, 2, 3, etc. That was infinitely better than the current limitation of Control C, where each thing you save wipes out the previous one (and if such a function does exist in modern computers, somebody please enlighten this dinosaur).

Awesome Trash-100 art, BTW. Talk about nostalgia. Makes me want to break out the pica pole just to measure something in agates.

 

The Catholic Church endorses Coyote exorcisms.

 

Buy some anger medication or rid your office of any clubs, bats, bricks and implements of destruction.

Somewhere, there is a computer still counting as it attempts to check the spelling. It will continue through the period of nuclear holocaust and when cockroaches roam the post-modern scorched earth.

The save strings were nice, though.

 

Always wanted to quote Full of Shit.

In most Mac programs, you can click on a block of text or art, hold down the shift key and click something else, hit Apple-C and it'll copy the whole lot. Or Apple-V and it'll paste it, etc.

As far as cutting and pasting multiple separate samples of copy, I've never had the occasion to work around that. Or maybe I have done so by just drawing a spare text box or two and using that to hold the intermediate copy. Hell, I dunno.

 

Is that what they're calling these days?

 

I believe Coyote is the system that was being used by the computer in The Hatch on Lost.

 

Holy shit, Coyote is the devil.

Run away. Run away. Run away.

 

Believe it or not, I worked on a Harris machine as early as something like 1976 when the paper I worked on in college converted to a "state of the art" cold type system. I actually went from that BACK to typewriters when I got a full-time job.

And the first place I worked that had Coyote, we thought it was the greatest thing ever. Obviously, much has changed.

 

The Coyote messaging system is dangerous.
We had two guys messaging back and forth using the reply button -- quick, short messages. Then the Managing Editor (a rather large woman) sent some ridiculous message to the whole staff. One of the guys hit the reply button to send another message to the other guy: "Blow me you fat bitch." Guess where that message actually was sent.