User:Teri Pettit

About Me
I'm an ex-software engineer, recently retired after 25 years working for Adobe Systems. I was also one of the developers of the Xerox Star, but I left Xerox in 1987 to join Adobe. The only article I've contributed substantially to so far is the one on Adobe Illustrator, which I have inside information on as one of the developers.

While I'm new to Wikipedia editing, I'm an old hat on the Internet, having received my first ARPANET address (pettit@imsss) back in 1976 before they even had all that .com and .edu stuff. (IMSSS stands for Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, a now-defunct Stanford think tank.)

I have a large web site started in 1996, devoted mostly to genealogy and paper doll collecting (plus a few pictures of my house and my cats.) Here's a link to it:


 * My personal web site

There is a more substantial bio in the genealogy section of the above site, and an interview from Jan 2006 on Mordy Golding's Real World Illustrator blog. Since I've been posting around for ages and always use my real name everywhere (no fake handles for me), which isn't an overly common name, you can also get a pretty lot of hits that are mostly me just by googling on my name. (The teacher and the real estate agent are not me, though.)

Teri Pettit 18:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Places I Hang Out Online
You can find me nearly everyday on the Illustrator User to User Forum, and also on the Song of Ice and Fire ezBoard forum.

Wikipedia Plans
I plan to extend the version history table in the Illustrator article to have a column for which features first appeared in each release. I also hope to add or extend some articles on the history of paper dolls and the hobby of paper doll collecting.