[GreenKeys] Model 14 non-typing reperforator on eBay

[dmm at lemur.com]

Jim Haynes wrote:
>Or if it does sell you know somebody else paid way too much.

Er, that'd be me.  It was $50 more than I wanted to pay,
but I'm going to need one and right now life is busy enough that
it cost less mental energy to pay the extra than it would have to
keep track of the relisting.  We'll see what I get after it
weathers shipping - if it does.  I may simply have overpaid for 
a box of parts.

For more on the TTS *perforator* see the several reprints of
sales brochures at:

<http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/compline/literature/tts/sales/index.html>

I have scanned an operator's manual for it, as well, but that isn't
online yet.

There were also later developments which simplified
things (not necessarily for the better).  For example, 
Compugraphic and Mergenthaler sold a special-purpose standalone
computer called a "Justape" which would read as input 6-level
tape with only the text - no coding for spacebands, quadding, etc.
It would automatically justify the lines and punch a 6-level tape
to go to the linecaster.  Old Linotype operators do not speak kindly
of the quality of its algorithms.  See:

<http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/compline/literature/compugraphic/index.html>

There were also CRT-based editing systems by the late 70s which
punched 6-level tape for the linecasters (e.g., the Mergenthaler CorRecTerm).
These were used to drive phototypesetting systems as well.


I'm still looking for:
- a *working* TTS perforator (I have two incomplete Universal Perforators)
- a Model 20 printer
- a 6-level TD

I think I finally have an Operating Unit that will fit one of my
Linotypes (of course, I haven't yet had time to try to fit it).

Regards,
David M.
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