Re: TOT - Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

[m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> 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.

But with a good hammer, you can force the lead into the new plates without
melting....

        mark (who's taken at least part of this offlist)

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