Common Ground

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Common Ground was a "DigitalPaper Technology" program with the headline "Make your documents truly portable. Let anyone view and print them without creating application or fonts." Based on Portable Documents, the features were: Common ground's cross platform, universal display language which worked with all fonts including PostScript and TrueType; Pixel for Pixel Identical Documents (at 300 dpi); Search, copy and paste freely; Security; Attach sounds to Documents; Text Search. Target customers were: Writers/Designers/Editors; Business People; Engineers and Drafters; Faxless people; Bulletin Boards.

Platform: Apple Macintosh 2-3Mb RAM Disk 3.5 Hard Disk

Mac OS System 6.0.5 or later 2Mb RAM

Mac OS System 7.0 or later 3Mb RAM

Application Software (AS:) Wordprocessing

Version: 1.02

Platform :	Apple Power Macintosh
Format :	Disk 3.5
Publisher :	No Hands Software
Authors :	Nick Gault, Andy Nuss, Steven Marcus
Date :	1993
Product Code :	749426000255

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Item	Manufacturer	Platform	Format	Date
Common Ground	No Hands Software	Apple Power Macintosh	Disk 3.5	1993

Information About No Hands Software:

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH49367. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.

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