Kind of OT: I recall reading on some health forum that in a certain Japanese paint factory, workers would put dried paint flakes under their tongues and then spit them out, a-la homeopathically, to make them impervious to the chemicals. It is believed to work by sending a signal to the gut "to prepare for this chemical". Not sure if it would have worked on inks but it may have.
Justin Goldberg https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinpaulgoldberg On Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 4:27 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 6/17/20 12:25 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > > https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu > > > > 28min documentary on the last ever edition of the NY Times to be > > printed using hot metal -- before they switched to what are now a > > quite choice assortment of late-'70s minicomputers. I think I spotted > > a PDP, a Data General and some IBM device, but I am no expert in this > > era. > > > > When I was in college, I went on a weekend trip with a friend to see > where he worked during the summer. It was a print-shop, complete with > both letterpress and offset--and a Linotype ("pot" heated with natural > gas). The local advertising circular was still set with hot type and I > witnessed the operation of that contraption. Noisy and wonderful. > > See the Twilight Zone episode "Printer's Devil" for another sample. > > I was told that most newspaper pressmen were alcoholics, as it blunted > the effect of the then-toxic inks used in printing. > > Anent ETAOIN: Early on in the formation of the CDC spinoff, ETA > Systems, I asked Neil Lincoln what "ETA" stood for. He related the > story of his son and ETAOIN SHRDLU. Back then, the name of the > supercomputer was referred to as the GF-10; later changed to the ETA-10. > > (GF standing for GigaFLOP). > > --Chuck > > >
