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Composing Room
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The Perfect Screw
Holder:
The Case of the
California Job
Case
Back in junior high school, in one of the
vocational classes that you could take, alongside woodshop,
I forget the name of the class, but everyone had a California Job Case -- a big wooden box about 2 feet by 3 feet by 8
inches deep, filled with compartments.
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And
in each compartment there was type -- the metal type pieces -- for each
letter of the alphabet and numbers too.
And the order of the compartments was similar to the typewriter, so
that often-used letters such as "e" were in a compartment in
the middle of the case. And so as you put type together in a
block for printing, you'd pull the metal type pieces out of
the California Job Case. Wonder where all those Job Cases went; schools probably
threw them out. Wish I had one now; could put it in my basement to hold
all my screws.
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