22 Jul
2005
22 Jul
'05
12:25 p.m.
At 12:58 AM 7/22/2005, Andrew K. Bressen wrote:
Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> writes:
Mark Twain lost much of his fortune betting on the typesetting
race in the 1880s. See http://www.marktwainhouse.org/themuseum/archivist.shtml
for a bit about the Paige automatic type compositor and its
competition with Linotype.
- John
They certainly had linecasting machines driven
from paper tape.
In 1935. Yow.
Linotype was almost always a cutting edge company;