{"id":1161,"date":"2015-10-26T13:07:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2015-10-28T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T19:47:13","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-dads-halloween-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1161\/retro-scan-of-the-week-dads-halloween-card","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Dad&#8217;s Halloween Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dad_halloween_card_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dad_halloween_card_small.jpg\" alt=\"Personalized custom homemade Print Shop Halloween greeting card - circa 1984-85\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Happy Halloween from 1984<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My family has this way of saving everything.  Not through conscious, organized preservation, but by virtue of <em>never throwing anything away<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In that vein, I was digging through some old papers at my mom&#8217;s house after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1004\/retro-scan-of-the-week-my-dad\" target=\"_blank\">my father passed away<\/a> in 2013, and I came across this homemade Halloween greeting card.<\/p>\n<p>From the looks of it, my dad made the card for me and my brother using Broderbund&#8217;s Print Shop on the family&#8217;s Apple IIc.  It is printed on a single sheet of 8.5&#8243; x 11&#8243; paper; one is supposed to fold it in half twice to achieve a gatefold design with a front, inside, and back.  Click the image above to see the whole thing unfolded &#8212; the other side is blank.<\/p>\n<p>As for who colored it with crayons, I&#8217;m guessing I did (perhaps my dad or brother did it neatly, then I gave it a once-over with a brown squiggly line).  What a great momento from the home PC era.  Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Personal scan of homemade Halloween card, ca.1984-85]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever made a personalized greeting card using your computer?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Halloween from 1984 My family has this way of saving everything. Not through conscious, organized preservation, but by virtue of never throwing anything away. In that vein, I was digging through some old papers at my mom&#8217;s house after my father passed away in 2013, and I came across this homemade Halloween greeting card. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,27,26,10],"tags":[293,72,101,216,489,1219,595,255,1218,1216,1217,60],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-293","tag-72","tag-apple","tag-apple-iic","tag-broderbund","tag-card","tag-dad","tag-halloween","tag-homemade","tag-print-shop","tag-printer","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}