1980年初,我在台湾联合报社找到一份做中文报纸计算机捡排系统工程师的工作,当时中文报纸刚刚开始向自动化生产转型,那时的计算机比一台家用电冰箱还大,里面却没有中文字形,没有处理图形的能力,指令周期还不如一台今天的智能手机。欧美应用计算机排版比较早,最早的计算机字形都是由生产计算机排版机器(那时还不叫照排机)的厂商提供的,例如英国的Monotype公司, In early 1980, I found a job as a computer sorting system engineer in a Chinese newspaper at the Taiwan United Press, when the Chinese newspaper was just beginning a transition to automated production. At that time, the computer was larger than a domestic refrigerator without any Chinese Glyph, no ability to deal with graphics, instruction cycle is not as good as today’s smart phone. Earlier computer glyphs were provided by manufacturers of computer-typesetting machines (not yet photo-sorties) at that time, such as Monotype in the United Kingdom,