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Linotype Chat => Linotype Chat => Topic started by: Dave Hughes on May 16, 2022, 10:51:16 AM

Title: Oregon Historical Society acquire a Linotype
Post by: Dave Hughes on May 16, 2022, 10:51:16 AM
This Model L Linotype from 1915 has been acquired by the Oregon Historical Society (USA).

Nice looking machine, not sure what the wooden "modification" to the keyboard is about!

The machine is pictured at the museum's storage facility.

I'm intrigued by the huge electronic control panels to either side of the machine. Were they used to help put a man on the moon, or maybe, more mundanely, control a power station?

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccip3PjsHsj/

The Society has written a blog article about the acquisition, with more photos, that can be found here: "Imagine the Headlines!" A 1915 Linotype machine's New Home at the OHS (https://www.ohs.org/blog/imagine-the-headlines-1915-linotype-machine.cfm)
Title: Re: Oregon Historical Society acquire a Linotype
Post by: Keri Szafir on May 17, 2022, 08:09:24 AM
Looks interesting, these panels look like something found in an industrial plant control room. Who knows, maybe even a nuclear powerplant? Hacking around would be fun.
Title: Re: Oregon Historical Society acquire a Linotype
Post by: Les Stewart on May 27, 2022, 04:26:33 AM
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