On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 07:02:35PM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote: > I don't know how many of you were familiar with the Addressograph- > Multigraph (AM) Varityper phototypesetting systems.
If you're talking about the 8008(sic)-based unit which had the "developer" unit contained within it ... you're giving me a nervous tic. If for some reason of insanity you want to run this thing, you *must* keep it well-cooled. Otherwise the font disks spin ... too slowly. At the university newspaper we would keep the classified ads that it mis-typset and run them every April 1. The best was the ad for the "1876 Volkswagen Qabbit with automatic sransmisrion". Thankfully I have forgotten the others. And yes, if it messed up, you got to retype all those column inches all over again. mcl