When Linotype ruled the world
June 22, 2012
They were like Apple and Microsoft, two giants of the printing industry slugging it out. I refer, of course, to Monotype and Linotype. How the mighty are fallen. These illustrations are from 1957 when Linotype really did rule the world – offices and manufacturing in all parts, some expected, some least expected. Take note both Apple and Microsoft – you may rule now but in half a century, who knows.
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As a young woman in the early sixties I had a boyfriend who was a sub-editor on the local rag. I often visited him in the late evenings (he worked all night), not only to see him but to watch the linotype machines. Huge clattering complex machines like typewriters from Hell, spewing hot lead.
I shall never forget it. Computers are pale little miseries compared to such machines, clanking and crunching their way through the alphabet.