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[John Foust]

At 12:58 AM 7/22/2005, Andrew K. Bressen wrote:
>Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> writes:
>> They certainly had linecasting machines driven from paper tape. 
>In 1935. Yow.
>Linotype was almost always a cutting edge company; 

Mark Twain lost much of his fortune betting on the typesetting
race in the 1880s.  See http://www.marktwainhouse.org/themuseum/archivist.shtml 
for a bit about the Paige automatic type compositor and its
competition with Linotype.

- John