Category: Historical

It would appear to be one of the Whittaker company’s early photosetters.

Steve Robertshaw, Ex Whittaker & Compugraphic UK Engineer, updated this page with the following: Read the Full Article . . .

It is an early photosetter that used mainly linecaster technology to produce photoset output.

Interested in early photosetting technology? Check out the Early Photosetting Chat section of the Forum. Read the Full Article . . .

This is an early, computerised typesetting machine. The operator selects a character on the keyboard, which triggers a stroboscopic flash to set the type.

Four type styles, each with 105 characters, were available to the operator through filmstrips held on a drum. Read the Full Article . . .

S.A.M stood for ‘Sets All Matrices.’ It was a hot-metal linecaster made by M.H. Whittaker & Son.

This would then be cast in the machine. S.A.M. could use matrices from Ludlow, Linotype, Intertype and Nebitype companies. Read the Full Article . . .

The Intertype Monarch was designed without a manual keyboard. It relied totally on Teletypesetting (TTS) for setting type, using instructions from perforated tape.

It had an output of 14 lines per minute. A suction manifold held the matrices to the delivery belt as they were delivered at high speed to the assembler. Read the Full Article . . .

On its introduction in 1962, the Electron was said to be the fastest linecaster in the world.

It used Teletypesetting to automatically select matrices through a keyboard operated via perforated tape. Read the Full Article . . .

Launched as one of a range of ’70’ series linecasters, the model 79 was specifically designed for use with Teletypesetting (TTS). During TTS a perforated tape was passed through a special attachment on the linecaster. The perforation activated a keyboard and selected the appropriate matrices.

A keyboard operator perforated the tape, encrypting the original text in a series of dots. The tape could be transmitted by telegraph to a reperforator in the printer’s office, which replicated the perforated tape. It was then passed to the linecaster operator. Read the Full Article . . .

The C4 had four magazines allowing type up to 18 point, and used sliding carriages to help ease the changing of magazines.

A High-Speed version was introduced in 1954 that used Teletypesetting (TTS). TTS is a means of automatically selecting matrices using perforated tape running through a special attachment on the machine. Read the Full Article . . .

Intertype Models F, G and H were introduced in 1936. They had four magazines and a double distributor.

The G4 4SM, with its additional four magazine side unit, was announced in 1938. It had two widths of main magazines: a 72-channel magazine for fonts up to 36 point, and a 90-channel for standard sized fonts. Read the Full Article . . .

Introduced in 1935, the Model 48 could hold up to seven magazines.

The Whittaker machine is the standard model with four magazines, but a side unit holding another three magazines was available. Read the Full Article . . .