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To: abb

That photo is a trip down memory Lane as I was a typesetter from 1955-1967.

The machine in the foreground looks something like the old Linotype #18, with a 28-channel side magazine for special fonts. A tad later design though.

The machine was a marvel of engineering and I loved working on it. I half suspect I’d go back to it if they ever came back.

The max speed was seven lines of straight matter (news) a minute. I had some friends who worked on porno books and said they pushed the machine to the max because they wanted to get to the end of the story before a shift change.


69 posted on 12/20/2011 9:49:10 AM PST by Oatka (This is the USA, assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Oatka

Since mid-2009, when I became a real, live working reporter for my own newsblog (I cover local government as a hobby), I have been studying and reading quite a bit of journalism and communications history.

It took huge amounts of men and machinery to put out a paper. Lots of history there. One of my favorite Bogart movies is “Deadline USA.”


71 posted on 12/20/2011 10:40:09 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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