Apple?

Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> writes: In 1935. Yow. Linotype was almost always a cutting edge company; highlights of the company history, from http://www.linotype.com/10-10-10-14026/1973.html 1975 introduced machines with floppy drives 1978 introduced machines which stored fonts as outline vectors 1985 lino, adobe, apple, and itc "cooperate in typography and technology" by the early 90s they had 1200 and 2400 dpi postscript RIP's and tabloid sized laser printers for use as typesetters. some of the original postscript fonts were licensed from them by adobe; they seem to own helvetica, optima, and palatino among others. They merged with Hell, a printing press maker, around 1990. Today they exist as a font vendor, owned by Heidelberg (probably the world's foremost printing press maker). those boxes on ebay might not be stripped, except for that one missing drive; industrial stuff like this often has open option slots. apple II's did get embedded into some pretty unusual places. Around 1983 I saw one running the player piano roll punching equipment at QRS. In 1997, the self-storage facility in nj that I moved out of still had one controlling the whole operation; alarm system, entry gate keycode, printing the bills, etc. Both of those were still in beige plastic cases, though; I've never seen one mounted inside something else. Unless you count the II's on a card for the Mac LC, of course.