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@jchaven oh wow 😯 that was a while ago ey 😅 when I started working we used telex and to this day hardly anyone knows what that was  I remember a telex operator getting annoyed because incoming messages overruled him halfway typing his outgoing messages, so he had to start over again. Does that sound familiar? If true, that was not a very sophisticated protocol. Around 2000, I worked at an international distributor of medical equipment. They sometimes had to telex to customs offices in the Middle East. No fax nor email there yet.  @Heliograph I was wondering why that E is so big but it's of course because @volpeon mondays exist  @Heliograph @Heliograph fun fact, "boilerplate" also comes from physical typesetting! It came from the plate metal which was formed with type on and could then be distributed to different newspapers  @Heliograph@mastodon.au @Heliograph We had those when I was working on my college newspaper, and later when I worked for a publishing company as a book editor in the 1960s and early 1970s. Then they gave way to computerized printing.  @Heliograph Most of the users don't have a clue about typography vocabulary origin (font, case, etc.) and keyboard (strange) disposition.  @Heliograph Yep. Took a printing class in Junior High in the 60’s, and that’s how we did it. More info for anyone curious: https://www.google.com/search?q=hand+setting+type @Heliograph Would be amusing to start the rumor that the arrangement of letters in that box was chosen to prevent typesetters from colliding with each other reaching for adjacent letters and getting stuck  @Heliograph My 1960’s high school required boys to take shop (girls took home ec) including a term of print shop. The first week included memorizing the lower case layout. Later we locked a page, inked the platen, and printed. |
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In high school I had an exam on which compartment in the California job case each type piece resided.
I also used a Linotype machine a few times in that class. It was usually broken.