Comments on: Typewriter Keyboard On Typesetting Machine (Mar, 1950)

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:03:58 +0000

jayessell: “The episode”? Burgess Meredith appeared in four of them not to mention narrating the 1983 movie
– Printer’s Devil (1963) …. Mr. Smith (which is the one that I’m sure you mean)
– The Obsolete Man (1961) …. Romney Wordsworth
– Mr. Dingle, the Strong (1961) …. Luther Dingle
– Time Enough at Last (1959) …. Henry Bemis

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:24:07 +0000

Was that the machine in the Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith?
How did they get one onto the set?
(The one hour episodes aren’t shown as much as the others.)

To we in the 21st century, a device that converts one set of keystrokes
into a different set of keystrokes without the use of microelectronics
seems a remarkable achievement.

By: Don

Don — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:01:41 +0000

The Newspaper Museum at the Minnesota State Fair has one still operating:

http://www.minnesotanewspaperf.....useum.html

I can spend hours there just watching . . . .

By: spiff

spiff — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:31:35 +0000

I just watched some of these machines on YouTube. Amazing.

By: John Savard

John Savard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:33:50 +0000

The union representing typesetters could not prevent such a device from being invented. But they may well have ended up preventing its widespread use.

By: katey

katey — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:26:46 +0000

I can’t believe the Typesetter’s Union let this happen!

What is more amazing is that there are still people in this country who run these machines. As a hobby. The usually run on gasoline and have a pot of molten lead in the back.