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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (55507)9/12/2004 4:08:24 PM
From: Gersh Avery  Read Replies (2) of 89467
 
> Times Roman characters produced on a lintotype machine in 1960<

lintotype?????? I think you mean linotype

So someone is suggesting that this officer went to some publisher to have his manuscript typeset .. for his own personal records ..

a linotype machine would be used for making a plate for printing. This kind of machine would also produce proportional spacing .. for instance the "i" would take less space than a "m."

So then .. you seem to suggest that this guy used some gigantic machine that would cost many thousands of dollars to type up memos for his file cabinet .. Oh yes .. since the linotype would produce a inverse image as a plate, he would then send the plate that he made to the press to make a single print.

Edit: BTW .. when did you folks stop talking about the IBM Selectric ll? Have you given up on trying to say these were made on one of those?
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