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I remember the 202, the sound of the photo paper feeding, and the cracking sound the floppies made at certain times--was it when one was saving fonts to them?
by cafard 11y ago
I remember the 202, the sound of the photo paper feeding, and the cracking sound the floppies made at certain times--was it when one was saving fonts to them?
- thawkins 11y agoI worked as a systems/software engineer at Linotype-Paul in Cheltenham UK, which is where the 202 was designed and built. I worked on tbe hyphenation programs on ut, and wrote a large part of the application used on the Linoscreen 7000 book pagination terminal that was used to drive paginated books into a 202. Tbe Linoscreen 7000 was a derivative of the Datek 7000, aquired (including myself) from Datek systems in Wembly North London. Mergenthaller was our US AGent. I used to have my own 202 taking up a full third of my office. They where incredably reliable, so this story here is an unusual tale. A definate lemon machine.
- cafard 11y agoAs you say, they were very reliable. I had a lot to do with 202s over several years, and don't remember any problems that resulted from the 202 itself.