[GreenKeys] Linotype

[dmm at lemur.com]

Keelan is correct - at present Linotypes may still be found, if one
tries hard enough.  Indeed, at leat three GreenKeyers have done so -
Keelan, another, and myself.  Over the last 3 1/2 years, I've hauled
home eight of them, in various stages of disrepair.  One is actually
working.  Pictures:

http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/cr-stuff/quicklook/index.html

There is a small, but active, community of folks involved in preserving
thse machines (and related equipment).  Indeed, there is still a
*travelling* Linotype repairman (Dave Seat, of Hot Metal Services)
who remains very busy (though most of his work is on related machines -
Ludlow Typographs and various presses, mostly).

They are a great deal of work, a great deal of fun, and utterly addictive.
They'll also warp your perspective such that a Teletype will never 
seem heavy again :-)

Regards,
David M.
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Dr. David M. MacMillan  -  dmm at lemur.com

   The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
       - Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915); Aldo Leopold

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