"Wes" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote:

I doubt if there is a working Linotype machine in most states in the
country. I don't know of a single magazine that uses it for anything; the
last newspaper I knew of that used it was over 20 years ago.


Back around 1972 or so, I could have learned how to be a linotype
operator. My school
system had one and had a course on it. I took typing instead. I figured
computers were
in my future and typing would be a head start. Plan worked for me for
many years.

Wes

That was a good move. You would have learned the skill just in time to give
demonstrations at your local museum. g

I knew quite a few typesetters, even the digital kind, who found themselves
out of work with absolutely no prospects. There were waves of them: around
1975, and again around 1985. The last one I knew of worked around 1993.

Of course, that happened to many printing- and publishing-industry jobs over
the same period.

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Ed Huntress