Shift Happens
May 27, 2015 14:46:51 #
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Wish I could remember all that tonight when I go out for supper and a few drinks.
Sarge69
Sarge69
May 28, 2015 06:01:35 #
May 28, 2015 10:57:05 #
Scary isn't it. Thanks. Our younger generation had better get all of the knowledge that they can get. ( And Education. ) bb
May 28, 2015 11:01:41 #
May 28, 2015 12:11:33 #
sarge69 wrote:
Wish I could remember all that tonight when I go out for supper and a few drinks.
Sarge69
Sarge69
stay home... read a book about typesetting!
May 28, 2015 12:30:28 #
BatManPete wrote:
stay home... read a book about typesetting!
No need. At Ft Monmouth, NJ, after work I did part-time hours at the Asbery Park Press as a lino-type operator.
We made the tapes (8 baud) and the typesetter used it for setting type.
Sarge69
May 28, 2015 13:25:27 #
May 28, 2015 17:46:14 #
renoles
Loc: Ethereal World
Seems that we need a lot more law enforcement to catch those video thieves. By the way, does anybody here know how to do that? I do not. Must be why I spend so much at Amazon to buy DVD's of the things I like. One benefit - no search and seizure knocks on my door at 6:00 A.M. Just saying...
May 28, 2015 20:28:33 #
sarge69 wrote:
No need. At Ft Monmouth, NJ, after work I did part-time hours at the Asbery Park Press as a lino-type operator.
We made the tapes (8 baud) and the typesetter used it for setting type.
Sarge69
We made the tapes (8 baud) and the typesetter used it for setting type.
Sarge69
linotype I think. I had a metal account in the fifties.. the company folded (Freeport,NY) while I wuz in the army (ours,I think) and a lost a coupla hundred pounds of metal.. long before 8 level tapes (ascii) even existed I think..
May 28, 2015 23:39:11 #
Really brings back memories for me. I studied print shop functions for three years in high school, 67-69, working the Linotype machine, platen presses, bindry work and offset printing and hand setting type. Loved it at the time. i recently came a cross a California Job Case at the garage sale for 25.00. Snatched it up real quick.
May 29, 2015 06:59:55 #
yeh, I had a 7x11 Pearl in the celler, (GMC Jobber) set type in HS for 62.5 cents an hour, ran c&p/miller, c&P w/rice, 1250 multi.. early '50's... all those skills are useless today, but at 16 I had a (for then) highly marketable skill set..in an hour I could hand feed 2500 envelopes, including stocking.... times change,now the best skill for today seems to be drug dealer..(stepping stone to the WH,GBG) sigh.... Ed
May 29, 2015 07:46:29 #
Not at all surprised that they were still teaching print shop in the late sixties.. In that time frame a got a call from one of my old print shop owners,"hey,Ed,I wanna retire, want the business?, take it over and pay me what and if and when you can"..."Aww, I got two kids, cant take the risk" (he could not sell it) BTW they are still teaching wet photography in schools...on our dime.... Ed
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