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Just Found: Lt. Col. Jerry Killian's Typewriter
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| 09/10/2004
| TC Rider
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.
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To: TC Rider
41
posted on
09/10/2004 4:33:21 PM PDT
by
BJungNan
(Stop Spam - Do NOT buy from junk email.)
To: TC Rider
LOL!
I had one of those SCM Electrics in high school ('67). Dimmed the entire neighborhood's lights when I fired it up to do an assignment paper.
Warm fuzzies...
42
posted on
09/10/2004 4:35:23 PM PDT
by
7.62 x 51mm
(• Veni • Vidi • Vino • Visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
To: TC Rider
43
posted on
09/10/2004 4:41:59 PM PDT
by
miltonim
(Fight those who do not believe in Allah. - Koran, Surah IX: 29)
To: gilliam
"orgasmatron"
IIRC the Orgasmatron was from the Woody Allen film, "Sleeper". The prop in the film was actually a dysfunctional elevator in the futuristic home near Evergreen Colorado used as the movie set.
See, I know as much about orgasmatrons as I do about linotypes.
To: MainFrame65
Was that the one that only worked if you spoke directly into the mouse? That was the movie, "The Voyage Home". The one I referred to was the Original Series, "Assignment Earth".
45
posted on
09/10/2004 4:43:49 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
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To: TC Rider
Hot Metal, Baby!!
46
posted on
09/10/2004 4:44:02 PM PDT
by
haywoodwebb
(American, Christian, Conservative, Negro . . . A return to td$‚„arty of Lincoln)
To: dennisw
Does it do kearning? Serious question. No, not really on the early machines which made slugs with vertical sides. Later models?
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posted on
09/10/2004 4:46:10 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
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To: TC Rider
And here's an actual photo of Lt. Col. Killian using a similar machine...
48
posted on
09/10/2004 4:49:55 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(This is my most clever tag line ever!)
To: Dan Evans
49
posted on
09/10/2004 4:55:07 PM PDT
by
gilliam
To: TC Rider
Of course it has 80 keys on the keyboard and foot peddles. I worked on one of these babies all through HS ... also had a lever you worked with your knee.
Centering like in that one memo could earn you a squirt!
50
posted on
09/10/2004 4:56:27 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.)
To: TC Rider
Send this to Juan Williams. Man, he was irritating tonight!
To: TC Rider
"Does it do kerning? Serious question." On the model illustrated, the line of type, or slug, was cast from lead all at the same time. The line was produced by assembling the separate dies for each letter into a line. I assume that each die could be a separate width depending on the letter. In old newspapers, you can see that the font is proportional even back in the fifties.
It was fascinating to watch this machine in action because each die had to be returned to it's bin after the line was cast so it had a very elaborate and noisy Rube-Goldberg mechanism to do this.
To: Kiss Me Hardy
So kearning is mostly a product of computer printing? I guess it was done for some Bible editions and other highly esteemed books. For these books the time was sometimes taken to do kearning.
53
posted on
09/10/2004 5:03:07 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Allah FUBAR!)
To: TC Rider
54
posted on
09/10/2004 5:03:16 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: TC Rider
I used to work in the pre-press department of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald as a j-school undergrad with guys who'd started 30-odd years ago working on linotypes.
Their talk about lead slugs and hot type was as foreign to me as laser printing would be to Gutenberg.
55
posted on
09/10/2004 5:10:50 PM PDT
by
Loyalist
(This tagline uses IBM Selectric kerning!)
To: hole_n_one
Some days, natural selection needs a little help.
To: tiki; TC Rider
You should use color film next time.The software for his digital camera was accidentally set to 'sepia'. A common mistake back in the early 70's. ;-)
57
posted on
09/10/2004 5:13:13 PM PDT
by
uglybiker
(Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
To: TC Rider
ETOIN SHRDLU bump. Anybody know that one besides me?
To: TC Rider
59
posted on
09/10/2004 5:19:11 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
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To: MoralSense
Dvorak keyboard?
The lino keyboard actually had vertical rows of each letter in different sizes.
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posted on
09/10/2004 5:20:34 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
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