I recently posted some photos of the pressroom of the old Kerrville Daily Times, including this photo:
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| Linotype machine and operator, Kerrville Daily Times, Kerrville, late 1960s |
And then I ran across this snippet of a film -- about Linotype machines, and I thought it might interest one or two of you --
I loved the old linotype machines.
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I loved the engineering of the machine.
They seemed so complicated, but once you were around them for a while, they were much less confusing.
I loved them, and I miss them.
I'm not saying that we should get rid of computers; heavens no, I would be lost without my computers.
However, I wish that young people today could witness a linotype machine in operation.
I think they would love it, too.