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| james_s:
I remember using microfische machines in the library when I was a kid. I don't actually remember when the last time I used one of those was, they were kind of neat though. |
| Smokey:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 23, 2019, 06:52:14 am ---I remember using microfische machines in the library when I was a kid. I don't actually remember when the last time I used one of those was, they were kind of neat though. --- End quote --- Yup. I was in that same boat. Just barely caught the end of the typewriter too. |
| GlennSprigg:
Not to mention the old 'Linotype' hot-lead machines which were still being used when I worked as an elect/tech for the 'Advertiser' NewsPaper many decades ago. :-+ |
| GlennSprigg:
Re: 'Linotype' machines, for the young or uninitiated... It was a huge mechanical machine, like this... where you typed what's going on the newspaper, on the keyboard labeled '1'. As you typed each line, it would spit out molded lead bars into a stack, that had the text reversed, as in the following image. (Still hot to touch for a while!!)... When you had a whole page full, they were set up in a large tray, and a 100 ton press would imprint a physical copy into a thick sheet (like very dense cardboard), called 'ElephantHide'. In another machine, this was bent into a half circle, and a new mold made with a mixture of lead, tin & antimony. (Limited expansion/contraction when hot/cold). 2 of these would make a complete drum shaped circle, to print the pages on rollers. :phew: Now it's all computers, and special photo lithography, but still used not too long ago!!! |
| schmitt trigger:
I worked as a service engineer for Kodak in 1978/9 for their professional business division, which meant microfilm and microfiches. I also have a ton of anecdotes, but instead of high jacking this thread, I think it would be best to open a new thread. |
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