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Many thanks to Pete Roberts for sending in this amusing anecdote from his days at the Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n

WAY BACK in 1969 I was a young Monotype keyboard operator at Cambridge University Press. Keen to ‘get on’, I volunteered to study Russian at night class (unpaid) with a view to typesetting Russian at work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This carried a premium of ten shillings (50p) a week. I also volunteered to demonstrate the Mono keyboard system for visiting groups of academics and as they gathered around my machine I would typeset Russian text at astonishing speed, probably 20,000 keystroke\/hour in Cyrillic!<\/p>\n

Of course the astonished onlookers had no idea I was rattling out total garbage as they only saw the punched tape chattering out of the machine.<\/p>\n

This was a regular source of amusement to my colleagues as the impressed visitors wandered off muttering ‘genius’ and such like!<\/p>\n

The tape ended in the bin of course but the exercise cheered up many a dull day.<\/p>\n

Monotype fan? Don’t miss the Monotype Chat<\/strong><\/a> section of the Metal Type Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Pete Roberts for sending in this amusing anecdote from his days at the Cambridge University Press. WAY BACK in 1969 I was a young Monotype keyboard operator at Cambridge University Press. 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