[GreenKeys] 6 level non-typing reperf available on epay

[dmm at lemur.com]

>yes a photo   is  good.  
>then we  know  what  looks  like should we run across  it!

Here you go:

http://www.galleyrack.com/temp/tts-6-level-paper-tape-2048x.jpg

Copy this to your own computer, as it isn't yet integrated into
my website and it will disappear from this temporary location.  
Someday I will incorporate it into a proper web page showing
various styles of tape - though I should do a better scan first.

This particular piece of tape was in the punch of a Linotype
CorRectTerm composing unit - a 1970s video-display system which allowed
editing on-screen before it punched a tape that could be fed
to either a Linotype or one of Mergenthaler's (or competitive)
phototypesetting units.  If you ever get a chance to see 
Carl Schlesinger's lovely film "Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu,"
at the end of the film when they turn away from the past
(hot metal) and toward the future (phototype), you see a
room full of these machines.

Mine worked for a whole ten minutes after I plugged it in.
Then PING and something blew in the video display.  

...
Now here's a strange coincidence.  As background - while I
mess about with machines now, most of my degrees are in Literature.
So, wishing to scan a piece of TTS tape, I go over to the
Mergenthaler CorRectTerm and grab a swath from its punch.  I scan
the last bit of it.  At this time, I have not yet read it.
My expectation is that it would be either a random bit of
newspaper copy or whatever the former owner's kids last 
typed on it decades ago.  ... So probably it's best to transcribe
it just in case they punched something unprintable...

But when I do start reading it, I discover that this snippet
of tape begins with the best-known quote from Dante's Inferno
(' ' Abandon all hope - ye who enter here ' ')
Curious.

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

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       - Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915); Aldo Leopold

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