Re: TOT - Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/10/2014 12:47 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Always Learning wrote:
>> On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 10:39 -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>>          mark "we won't talk about the month I punch Addressograph
>>> plates...."
>> Addressograph plates?  That is really ancient !  but they were
>> incredible useful in those days.
>>
> Yeah... but did you ever do it, or see it done? Forget the old manual
> Underwood, this required actual *force* hitting the keys (yes, the machine
> was electric). No speed, either - the actuator arms had to hit the metal.
> WHAM-WHAM-WHAM-WHAM

But the Linotype melted the lead and you pressed which key you wanted 
the lead to flow into.  Kind of.  It was cool to see that bar of lead 
slowly get lowered into the melting pot and finally out the other side 
came the lead on steel printing plate.  Though one I saw only made rows 
of text that then had to be lined up on the steel plate.  I guess it was 
for allowing inclusion of pictures and such.

Ah how xerography changed things.

And that is again the point.  We do things one way because with a big 
enough hammer we can get it to work.  Then new ways and new goals come 
along and the old stuff heads off for the big melting pot in the backyard.




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