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  3. July 2017

Re: Input capable printer

Joe Pluta said:
Doing my Googling I ran across a Wikipedia article that says there's
still a Series/1 running some part of our nuclear arsenal. I'm not sure
how I feel about that...

Hmm. At the International Printing Museum (where I spend my Saturdays), we routinely operate presses that are well over a century old, and linecasting equipment that's nearly half a century old.

(And Ottmar Mergenthaler, the inventor of the Linotype, was using binary codes to sort the matrices back in an era when a digital computer was a guy counting on his fingers!)

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JHHL

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