Posted on 09/10/2004 3:54:17 PM PDT by TC Rider
Here it is folks, it will do proportional type, variable line spacing, funky little superscripts and it was widely available since 1886. Of course it has 80 keys on the keyboard and foot peddles. Here we see Killian dashing off a shopping list for his wife.
I guess we should just give up now and admit Dan was right.
Kinda sad, isn't it?
lol!!
I actually saw one of those in use back in the 60s. LA Times, I think. It has pots of molten lead alloy in the back. Take a deep breath...
This machine looks like you could not only typeset with it but knit sweaters simultaneously.
Our local paper in 1949 had two of these machines and it was my fond memory of watching in awe the Linotype operator. I dreaded taking in edited corrections to him since a lot of manual moving was needed of the lead blocks of type to get the error out - especially if it was at the bottom of the column. But he was very patient and paid by the hour.</p>
Was that the one that only worked if you spoke directly into the mouse?
QWERTY
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Looks like a Swedish marital aid to me.
No doubt that this was found in Rove's basement;) Send it to CBS. They will run with it.
I have watched, awestruck, as comps who didn't speak English, put together letter-perfect newspaper stories on Linotypes. They didn't understand a word they were typing on these hot-metal monsters. I'm revealing my age with these memories, by the way.
I love how you caught him right in the act of writing the memo. You should use color film next time.
Does it do kearning? Serious question.
No. If you wanted to kern, the best you could do was shave the end of the slug
ROFL
That is quite a machine. One problem is the lead pot, and the other is the star wheel. The fonts are machined out of solid brass. Very fast, too, faster than qwerty typewriters.
-PJ
Actually, you could also alter the spaces between words, but not the characters relationship to each other. Rubber type changed everything, including the ability of bolshie printers to deliberately drop the type-packed forms on the floor just before edition time.
That looks like that machine from "Barbella," you know, the orgasmatron or whatever it was called....
"orgasmatron "
We are all too old ...
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