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To: Windcatcher
She doesn't seem to understand that conservatives have jobs too, and (gasp) some of us even work at printing companies...

I never worked at a printing company, but I spent a semester in seventh grade sorting lead type in shop class. In the early 1970s I edited a little magazine that was set with an IBM Composer. The printer ran it from a minicomputer that handled all the justification and even the spell checking.

I was pretty sure TANG didn't provide this machine to office clerks.

174 posted on 09/27/2005 9:04:43 AM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138

Heh :) those old typesetters cost a fortune. I was a little later in the industry but even our old 202 cost an arm and a leg, and the full-blown XYVision cost as much as a small mansion. No way did office clerks get their hands on such equipment.


175 posted on 09/27/2005 9:07:35 AM PDT by Windcatcher (Earth to libs: MARXISM DOESN'T SELL HERE. Try somewhere else.)
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