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Linotype Keyboard

A closeup of the keypad of an old Linotype machine. Prior to the advent of computerized typesetting, these machines were able to cast whole lines of type as a single lead slug, all done via a ponderous mechanical process. Note the ever-popular Etaoin Shrdlu, RIP. Taken at the Museum of Printing in North Andover, Mass.

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Uploaded on August 10, 2007
Taken on August 10, 2007