19 Jun
2020
19 Jun
'20
11:06 a.m.
We have a working Linotype at the System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley Maryland.
Open now only by appointment with a maximum of two masked visitors due to COVID
https://museum.syssrc.com
Bob Roswell
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Alan Perry via cctalk
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 1:41 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu
On 6/17/20 1:27 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
A friend of mine who was in Seattle collected this stuff. He had a couple
Linotype/Intertype machines, a press, and lots and lots of magazines of type. It was set
up in his garage and he would give demos of it in action. It was interesting how it
worked. Unfortunately, he had to move out of the area for work and moving that stuff to
another state was not feasible, so another local collector got it all.
There was another documentary on them, Linotype: The Film (https://linotypefilm.com).
alan
On Jun 17, 2020, at 3:25 PM, Liam Proven via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
28min documentary on the last ever edition of the NY Times to be
printed using hot metal -- before they switched to what are now a
quite choice assortment of late-'70s minicomputers. I think I spotted
a PDP, a Data General and some IBM device, but I am no expert in this
era.
As a veteran reader of Fredric Brown, especially "the Enchanted
Linotype", I have been using ETAOIN SHRDLU to win at Hangman for many
years... but I'd never seen one working before. It all still seems
like magic to me.
They should be fairly easy to find in printing musea.