Online Linotype Linotronic Info...

[kdw75]

I was watching some videos on YouTube the other night about old computers and got to looking online for information about Linotronics and the RIPS, such as when the various models were released, etc. I was quite surprised by how little information I could find. I at least figured there would be a Wikipedia page, but it was basically a couple of sentences. Does anyone know of a site that has details about their equipment, like Everymac does for the Macs? We still have all our old tech, so I have Tandy computers going back to my dad's first Model I, and we still have our L-300 and L-330 setup, but haven't turned them on in years. I spent my teen years down at work with mom and dad in the evenings, trying to figure out what was causing PostScript errors in customers' files.

 

[marktonk]

Here is a link to the Linotype-Hell Technical Information Series. I do not think it has what you are looking for but there are some interesting articles. The Linotype-Hell Technical Information Series

Mark

 

[chriscozi]

I was watching some videos on YouTube the other night about old computers and got to looking online for information about Linotronics and the RIPS, such as when the various models were released, etc. I was quite surprised by how little information I could find. I at least figured there would be a Wikipedia page, but it was basically a couple of sentences. Does anyone know of a site that has details about their equipment, like Everymac does for the Macs? We still have all our old tech, so I have Tandy computers going back to my dad's first Model I, and we still have our L-300 and L-330 setup, but haven't turned them on in years. I spent my teen years down at work with mom and dad in the evenings, trying to figure out what was causing PostScript errors in customers' files.

Still have my Red, Green and Blue Postscript programming books to solve those pesky issues.
Reminds me that we said 'Pagemaker only has two problems - Fonts and Graphics.' LOL
Adobe amazingly released them to the public a few years back - I think.

 

[kdw75]

Still have my Red, Green and Blue Postscript programming books to solve those pesky issues.
Reminds me that we said 'Pagemaker only has two problems - Fonts and Graphics.' LOL
Adobe amazingly released them to the public a few years back - I think.

I remember sitting there praying that it would go to ..3 on the RIP after ..1 and ..2, instead of going back to 0.

 

[Whitaker]

Here is a link to the Linotype-Hell Technical Information Series. I do not think it has what you are looking for but there are some interesting articles. The Linotype-Hell Technical Information Series

Mark

Thanks for the link! I didn't know that was online. I have a few of them from back in the day when they were useful to me.