[Milsurplus] " Ship's newspapers "

David Ross ross at hypertools.com
Fri Aug 17 17:53:23 EDT 2007


Hue & the gang -

  I remember George Hutchison W7TTY talking about Linotype machines 
being used on large ships -  check with him.  You can get 'hold of 
George through his website:
<http://www.rtty.com/>

73
Dave Ross    N7EPI



Hue Miller wrote:
> The news copy typed up by the radio man on the ship -  how was it copied?  I cannot
> see that one copy would at all suffice for the ship's crew. On a troop ship with thousands
> onboard, you would need numerous copies. "Mimeo machine" ?  I had about forgotten
> those existed. Is this what they used?  Tnx  -  Hue Miller
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