Look at the computers that replaced them and then imagine how often those have been replaced since then. Of course they did get less expensive pretty quickly (a

Look at the computers that replaced them and then imagine how often those have been replaced since then. Of course they did get less expensive pretty quickly (and I'm sure that even though the guy who invented the linotype could sit down at that machine and use it, that doesn't mean those are the same machines from when the NYT started using linotype, which was my initial silly assumption)