[GreenKeys] Model 14 non-typing reperforator on eBay

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

well if  you have the linotype   you  deserve the  6  level  perforator!    
go  for   it!!!!!
 
Ed!
 
 
In a message dated 10/31/2013 3:51:36 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
dmm at lemur.com writes:


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/tt
s/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/lette
rs/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.
===
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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