I sit corrected ( to abuse the "English" language )
Your elucidation has brought back to life a couple of brain cells that were
recently anesthetized by home brew. I've remembered where some working examples
are, albeit probably smaller than average.
David
unhappily soberising up!
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Fonts have always existed. Technically, every size and weight and style
> of a typeface is an individual font - and I speak as one who has used
> hot metal (monotype, linotype) and even wood block type on one long ago
> occasion. Upper case and lower case because that's how they were stored
> in the cabinet. 'Dis' meant to 'distribute' - that is to break up set
> type and redistribute it back into the case - and was not the short
> form of a non-existent verb.
> A printer would have a full set of fonts for just their favourite faces
> (i.e. Times for a newspaper's body copy) and restricted sets for
> headlines plus an assortment of decoratives for fancy work in publisher
> set advertisements and notices. Anything more would take up rooms and
> cost a fortune.
> Now, if you want to see an unlikely machine at work, little competes
> with a big monotype machine casting and setting individual type pieces
> from hot metal into lines as the operator typed - all whirring gears,
> grabber arms and fumes like a giant, deranged typewriter - very Heath
> Robinson stuff.
> All lost now - a great art gone.
> AndrewF
>
>
> On 03/12/2004, at 7:51 PM, David Carter wrote:
>
>
>>The font must've been wrong, as font's didn't exist then.
>>Although I'm not experienced enough to remember back that far, I think
>>they were
>>called typefaces.
>>
>>David
>>sitting here typing into my font driven pc ...
>>
>>Ross Orr wrote:
>>
>>>Rand E wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>This graphic is most interesting in that, the large panel in the
>>>>background is the control panel assembly for a US nuclear submarine
>>>
>>>
>>>Ding ding ding ding!
>>>
>>>The un-photoshopped version of the image originates here:
>>>http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/news/news_stories/sub-
>>>centen02.html
>>>
>>> After which, this website invited people to submit "hacked" versions
>>>(most were lame):
>>>http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?
>>>IDLink=1115586&mode=voteresults
>>>The by now ubiquitously-forwarded "RAND computer" version was the
>>>winning entry.
>>>
>>>A few things give it away. The shadows and perspective on the TV and
>>>teletype look a little off. And why would a computer need a bazillion
>>>analog gauges? Work on Fortran had only just started in 1954--I
>>>believe the name Fortran may have come later. (Just writing the
>>>compiler took 2 years. The official introduction was in 1957:
>>>http://www.thocp.net/biographies/backus_john.htm , scroll about
>>>halfway down.)
>>>
>>>And, if you have some 50's Popular Mechanics issues lying around,
>>>you'll see the caption font is wrong. . . ;-)
>>>
>>>Now Rand, what I'm dying to know is, what DOES the big steering wheel
>>>thing do?
>>>
>>>cheers,
>>>
>>> -- Ross
>>>
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