General Information

Serial #

68 (.1)

Part Number

1

Total Parts

6

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL & SYNTHETIC

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

71.0 cm

Width

68.0 cm

Height

175.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Printing

Category

Typesetting

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

PHOTON

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Massachusetts

City

Wilmington

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1966-1980

Canada

WITH THE ADVENT OF COMPUTERIZED TYPESETTING IN THE 1960'SRB&W INSTALLED ONE OF THE 1ST PHOTO TYPESETTING SYSTEMS IN CANADA...ALLOWED THE COMPANY TO PIONEER IN THE TRADE DIRECTORY FIELD [REF.4]

Function

PHOTOTYPESETTING FROM PUNCHED PAPER TAPE OR MAGNETIC TAPE AT HIGH SPEEDS

Technical

ON INTRODUCTION, REGARDED AS THE FASTEST STRAIGHT MATTER PHOTOTYPESETTER ON THE MARKET. UNIVERSALLY COMPATABLE WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF TAPE (MAGNETIC & PAPER) KEYBOARDS, IT WAS ONE OF THE 1ST TO BE GENERALLY USED BY BOTH JOB PRINTERS AS WELL AS TRADE TYPESETTERS. ITS ROTATING DRUM HAD A CHARACTER CAPACITY OF 768 AT 35 NEWSPAPER LINES PER MINUTE.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

'Photon/ 713 TEXTMASTER'/ CAPTIONS ON CONTROLS INCLUDE 'Leading', 'Line Length', 'Functions', 'Point Size Selection'/ PLATE ON COMPONENT INSIDE 'COMPUTER CONTROL COMPANY INC./ FRAMINGHAM MASS. LOS ANGELOS CALIF./ MOD. NO: TCM 31B SER. NO. 203/ 1024 Words/ [.]8 Bits/ 6.0 u sec. Cycle Time', HANDWRITTEN ON PLATE '72o'

Missing

ACCORDING TO DONOR, MACHINE IS COMPLETE From CA of 01/05/1995 by Tony Missio: Undetermined

Finish

TEAL BLUE & LT BLUE TEXTURED FINISH, SILVER COLOURED TRIM/ GREY COMPONENTS VISIBLE & SWITCHES & CONTROLS IN BLACK, RED, GREEN, WHITE & ORANGE

Decoration

N/A