Tuesday October 21, 2008 at 7:56
Typography in the Olden Days (via Alki1) :
Anyone who can identify this machine is telling me their age. Before Adobe and PageMaker and Apple and when Microsoft was a tiny little startup over the hill in Seattle and Douglas Englebart was still working at PARC.
Mrs. McFadden and student. it was faster than setting type on a stick and you didn’t have to deal with a Linotype operator. But you had better know the coding info on the screen. No spell checker either. It’s output was a twelve inch strip of photo paper from a roll in the machine that the students hung from wires and pipes in the lab to dry after being processed in a chemical bath. They were then cut up into repros to be pasted on a mechanical. And we thought it was the most modern system possible.
