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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:17

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On 3/17/2018 11:41 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
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> 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.
> 

An interesting video about Mergenthaler's typesetter is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxeuwlvf8w

-- 
numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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