"The bells are silent now..."

[Bob/WB0AUQ]

Jeffrey Herman wrote:
>
> "In the old days, bells would ring. The ancient clacking teletype
> machines would clatter to life amid a cacophony of bells when
> big news broke, and the newsroom would pause as some editor
> ran to wire alley to see what was up.
>
Then the editor would trash the accompanying Burpee tape, run into the
typesetting dept, waving a stream of yellow print-out.  We Linotype
operators would usually have only moments to get it set into type, as
these stories seemed to break just before deadline.  We had two Model 8
Comet Linotypes with Fairchild tape units but they were usually busy
setting a week's worth of "Dear Abby" or something such, and besides,
the editor knew he had a better chance of getting his story into type
with human fingers on the keyboard.
Ahh, for the good ole days of hot type!  Thanks for conjourning up the
memories.

Bob/WB0AUQ/brainbol at lawrence.ks.us