27 Jan
2023
27 Jan
'23
7:10 p.m.
On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Chris via cctalk wrote:
can't swear to it though. I want to write a book.
You know on the puter.
Type it. Need that program.
First draft of my Honda book was on my father's WWII manual portable
typewriter. Then my co-author would edit and pay somebody to re-type, and
the publisher (JMP in Santa Fe) would edit and re-type.
For the nest round, I used Electric Pencil.
I had a DTC-300 (Hi-Type I daisy wheel that I traded a Honda 600 for). I
printed 8" wide on 15" paper. I printed two copies, 8" centered for the
editor, and 8" left justified for the artist (Peter Ashwanden, the best
automotive illustrator in the business). At the time, I could get 15"
paper with tear off for the pin-feeds, AND perforation to tear off at 8.5"
wide! They both loved the space for comments or doodles, and were quite
willing to send back marked copy for me to incorporate the changes, with
the artist tearing off and keeping the right side with his sketches.
It wasn't until late in the project that I finally got the publisher to
get a computer. They still printed out and gave printouts to their typist
(150WPM!) to key into the Linoterm. I was unable at the time to write to
the Linotern 8" disks. But, one time that I visited them, I connected
TRS80 with Rochester Dynatyper, and did a "printout" by having the
Dynatyper beat on the keys of the Linoterm.
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