[GreenKeys] Linotype

[dmm at lemur.com]

Steve wrote:
>...the segment on today's CBS Sunday Morning show about the newspaper 
>in rural Colorado that is still done on a Linotype machine.

Thanks.  I was not aware of this operation.  We don't get TV, but the
text version of this segment is online at:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-colorado-newspaper-thats-also-a-time-machine/

There is only one significant error in the article.  A Linotype
does not have 28,000 parts!  It might well have 2,800 parts (nobody
has done a complete count, and the total varies widely from one machine
to another, but "about 3,000" is a reasonable estimate).
By way of contrast, the infamous Paige Typesetter (which worked,
although it was not commercially viable) had "only" 18,000 parts.

There is at least one other *journal* (not a newspaper, but a quarterly)
created using a Linotype - the Wapsipinicon Almanac, published by
Tim Fay in Animosa, Iowa.

Regards,
David M.
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