On 09/11/2017 07:22 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
> Lincoln had ETAOIN on his personalized MN license plate (on the very well
> worn Ford full size van he drove) and another guy had SHRDLU on his plates.
>
> I was told that the name came from this string which could be found in
> printed works and t
Lincoln had ETAOIN on his personalized MN license plate (on the very well worn
Ford full size van he drove) and another guy had SHRDLU on his plates.
I was told that the name came from this string which could be found in printed
works and that people had always seen it but just read past it beca
On 09/11/2017 11:09 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> No, not kerning. Justifying. Linotype machines can't kern; when that's done
> in metal typesetting, which is rare, it involves cutting bevels onto the
> sides of the type blocks to allow them to partly overlap.
You're correct; I misstated the proce
> On Sep 10, 2017, at 10:55 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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> On 09/10/2017 06:25 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote:
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>> There was one of those machines in my Junior High School shop
>> classroom. I saw it run once (not well enough to successfully set a
>> line of type, but nearly).
>>
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11 September 2017 03:55
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> Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a novel on a
> computer Early adopt
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> On 09/10/2017 06:25 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote:
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> > There was one of those machines in my Junior High School s
On 09/10/2017 06:25 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote:
> There was one of those machines in my Junior High School shop
> classroom. I saw it run once (not well enough to successfully set a
> line of type, but nearly).
>
> I endorse Mark’s assessment of its safety characteristics...
I knew a fell
On Sep 10, 2017, at 7:55 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk
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> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 04:55:48PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> Not nearly as funny to watch as a Mergenthaler Linotype hot-type
>> machine, I'll wager.
>
> I got to see one in use my freshman year of college. The school
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 04:55:48PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> Not nearly as funny to watch as a Mergenthaler Linotype hot-type
> machine, I'll wager.
I got to see one in use my freshman year of college. The school
newspaper was still set that way (out of loyalty for the people
who had
On 09/10/2017 03:43 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> I tried to interest my publisher in going straight from microcomputer
> into typesetting machine, but I couldn't do that disk format, and the
> Rochester Dynatyper was too funny to watch.
Not nearly as funny to watch as a Mergenthaler Linoty
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Fred, you forgot that Tesla invented alternating current...
I wasn't around for that stuff.
From what I've heard, he didn't get into public electrocutions to
demonstrate.
It seems that anything with a typewriter style keyboard and ANY sort
On 09/10/2017 11:08 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> But, there were MANY obscure, mostly unpublished, manuscripts among the
> VERY first uses of word processing. Well before Jerry got into computers.
In fact, I'm aware of at least one novel that was composed using punched
cards on a mainframe
RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a novel on a computer
FIRST??!?
By now, you should know better than to EVER use that word in the presence
of those who were there during the history - it's comparable to saying
that Steve Jobs invented the first computer, or that billg invented th
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Early adopt
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> RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a novel on a computer
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> Early adopter
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