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Aldus software package, "PageMaker Version 4.2," 1991

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Aldus Corporation was a software company founded in Seattle in 1984 that developed one of the earliest products of desktop publishing (DTP) software. The company is named after 15th-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius. PageMaker 4.2 was released in 1991. Three of the founders of Aldus left the company in 1990 to establish Visio Corporation and created a product which later became known as Microsoft Office Visio.
ID Number: 2018.93.4
Date: 1991
Physical Description: 1 Software, Graphics; cardboard, paper, plastic, metal; Box: 9.25 in.H x 9 in.W x 4.25 in.D
Place Made: United States of America, WASHINGTON, Seattle
Credit: MOHAI, 2018.93.4
Subjects: Computers and Technology, Innovation and Invention, Businesses and Corporations

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