[cctalk] Re: Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jan 26, 2023, at 8:15 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk 
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 1/26/2023 4:23 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2023, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>>> I submit that the Selectric was not the optimum platform with which to
>>> set speed records.
>> 
>> Of course not!
>> Even a daisy wheel is easily capable of twice that.
>> But, we didn't have convenient access to anything better half a century ago.
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> 
> A half century a go I regularly typed 60WPM on my Kleinschmidt at work and my 
> Lorenz LO50
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> at home.  That was as fast as they went and rhythm rather than speed was the 
> desired objective.

I remember the same from banging on an ASR 33.  And if you watch videos of 
Linotype machine operators, the same thing is very clear: they show a nice 
smooth cadence, not incredibly fast but very steady.  The mechanical structure 
of those machines is very complex, with many more moving parts traveling far 
greater distances than typewriters have, so it's easy to imagine things jamming 
up if you try to go too fast.  And in some cases, jams would be seriously 
unpleasant, with molten lead spraying out onto the floor and perhaps the 
hapless operator.

        paul