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Computers Drive Linotype Hot Metal Typesetters (1962)


The Los Angeles Times newspaper drove Linotype hot metal typesetters with perforated tape created from RCA computers, greatly speeding up typesetting.

The key to this advance was development of a dictionary and a method to automate hyphenation and justification of text in columns. These tasks had taken 40 percent of a manual Linotype operator's time.