[GreenKeys] teletypes and linotypes

[Sheldon Daitch]

The Durham Herald-Sun was still running hot lead Linotypes for their
daily newpaper as late as either late 1978 or very early 1979.  I made a
service call once to the Durham paper for the AP in that time period
and they were the only Linotype machines I ever say which were capable
of taking the six-level Teletypewriter punched tape and setting type from
the tape.

Minimal adult supervision required.  I had known there were Linotype 
machines
capable of typesetting from the tapes, but had never seen one in action 
until
that service call.  It was like stepping back about 50 years in newspaper
production history.

I seem to recall the paper was getting ready, at the time, to convert to 
all
computerized phototypesetting, and I guess I got to see the tail end of the
use of those machines.

73
Sheldon

On 2/12/2012 9:13 PM, Bryan Brodie wrote:
> I was very fortunate as a third grader to visit the Richmond Times
> Dispatch (circa 1967) and see the Linotypes they used to publish the
> papers back then. To a lifelong gadget freak this was beyond amazing.
> The operator gave each of us a line of type to take home as a souvenir
> - and I also remember him tossing some type back into the top of the
> unit to be remelted.
>
>