Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Connectivity
Justape Width Plug

Title:

Oracle / Italic / Bold

Date:

1970s

Material:

Aluminum, plastic lid and plugboard, copper wire, metal hardware

Dimensions:

6½ × 3½ × 3 in. (165 × 89 × 76 mm)

Company:

Compugraphic Corp.

Location:

Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States

Stores the character widths used to control letter spacing for punched tape driven typesetters like Linotype, Intertype or Compugraphics. Text to be typeset was entered on a keyboard and stored on punched tape. The Justape machine could take the unjustified text from that tape, justify it using the character spacing information on the width plug and write it to a second tape, which was then fed into the typesetter.

Width plug attached to Justape machine
Linasec Justape Operating Instructions, at circuitousroot.com
(Public domain)