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Here’s to the First 50 Years

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Tom Laurin, President

Late last year while clearing out the contents of my parents’ basement, I came across several heavy metal plates with raised lettering. No ordinary printing plates, these plates had history: They were used to print early editions of Optical Spectra in the 1960s. Back then, printing was labor intensive. Movable type was locked into a chase and then eventually pressed against the paper, transferring the ink to the page. Even preparing mailing labels was primitive in comparison to how it’s done today. We’d load up the family station wagon with tray after tray of IBM...Read full article

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