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From: Quadibloc
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:24

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On Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 10:41:49 AM UTC-6, J. Clarke wrote:

> I think the system being sought in this discussion was the IBM 2680,
> available in 1967 or 1968, which was a phototypesetting system driven
> by a System/360 with associated software.  There were similar systems
> from RCA, Harris, and Mergenthaler.

I had never heard of that system.

I found more information here:

https://circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/phototypesetting/aps/index.html

The IBM 2680 CRT Printer was originally the Autologic APS-3; their APS-2, I had 
seen pictures of before, it was built around a PDP-8. Autologic certainly got 
around.

John Savard

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