Etaoin shurdlu!! My grandfather was a Linotype compositor 😉
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My first job was making pigs for the linotypes. Now I feel old.
apr 3, 2025, 5:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Most folks don’t know they were “steampunk word processors “!
apr 3, 2025, 5:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Back in the days when typesetting was not only a skill, but an art.
apr 4, 2025, 12:57 pm • 5 0 • view
Hope you can lift 200 pounds to change fonts.
apr 4, 2025, 2:24 am • 2 0 • view
Well, you’ve got me on that one! I can, however, draw a Linotype machine …
apr 4, 2025, 3:45 am • 0 0 • view
Pretty good. The lever on the right is the enter key if I remeber. The pot was on that side as well. We had a couple that ran on tape but they had nothing on the old schoolers. Jon title: Hell Boy.
apr 4, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
OK, now keep all the small letters in the lower case, and the big letters in the upper case.
apr 4, 2025, 4:26 am • 0 0 • view