I worked with H. S. Dakin Company and Washington Research Institute, back in the day. I was a computer and video consultant, and worked with the technology in the building at 3220 Sacramento Street.
I purchased the first Adobe Linotronic laser typesetting machine from H. S. Dakin Company, and created a new company in the San Francisco Financial District called Pinnacle Type. The new company also purchased the Oscar-Fisher darkroom chemical processing equipment to set up a darkroom for film processing. The film that was laser produced in the Linotronic was transferred to a darkroom canister, to be processed in the darkroom, in a traveling film bath. The film produced was often tabloid-sized CYMK color separations for signs, advertisements and posters.
Pinnacle Type helped design and typeset many books, and was the only Cyrillic typesetter in the San Francisco Bay Area. We helped produce Information Moscow.