{"id":18194,"date":"2013-06-09T08:03:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T15:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2013-06-09T08:03:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T15:03:32","slug":"new-adobe-drawing-hardware-yes-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/09\/new-adobe-drawing-hardware-yes-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"New Adobe drawing hardware (yes, hardware)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Adobe started out as a hardware company? As founders John Warnock &amp; Chuck Geschke tell it, their whole plan was to sell printers, workstations\u2014the whole enchilada. It was only after getting hit over the head repeatedly by customers saying, &#8220;Hmm, I really just want this PostScript thing&#8230;&#8221; that they switched gears and focused entirely on software.<br \/>\n30-odd years later, here&#8217;s VP Michael Gough showing off &#8220;Mighty&#8221; (a pen) and &#8220;Napoleon&#8221; (a short ruler; BYO rimshot).<br \/>\n[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jexqp-MK0pI&amp;w=425&amp;h=239]<br \/>\nOf course, being incredibly juvenile, I can&#8217;t hear about this project without thinking of the SNL version of Sean Connery talking about &#8220;The Pen Is Mightier&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/2013\/05\/mighty.jpg\" alt=\"Mighty\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9198\" \/><br \/>\nEngadget has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/06\/04\/adobe-xd-shows-project-mighty-napoleon-hands-on\/\">hands-on review<\/a> with the product team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Adobe started out as a hardware company? As founders John Warnock &amp; Chuck Geschke tell it, their whole plan was to sell printers, workstations\u2014the whole enchilada. It was only after getting hit over the head repeatedly by customers saying, &#8220;Hmm, I really just want this PostScript thing&#8230;&#8221; that they switched gears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}