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Confessions of a Herald headline writer
By adamg on Mon, 05/04/2015 - 9:10am
Aformer Herald staffer expounds on the dying art of good headline writing (also, Atex, but that's likely to be of interest mainly to former ink-stained wretches).
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Admit it, Gaffin
One of your deep, dark desires is to be the headline writer for the Herald.
The author had an interesting point. Tabloid newspapers got a bad rep over the century for sensationalism, embodied by their screaming headlines. Today, they are level headed compared to headlines (and stories) in the internet press.
Or Channel 7 ...
Also, he undersells Atex. Sure, it could only do one thing at a time, but it did that very well. And the keyboards could be used to defend yourself from an entire horde of invading Mongols - they were heavy and solid. When I was working at a place that switched from Atex to one of your frou-frou client/server things that used actual state-of-the-art PCs, I kept my Atex keyboard for a long time - just had a better feel.
Mechanical Keyboards might have that "feel"
The "feel" of the keys clicking is something that a lot of people miss on old keyboards. Most cheapo keyboards today have little rubber domes instead of springs. I don't know anything about the Atex, but if they were like the old IBM Model M keyboards, you can probably find that same feel with a modern mechanical keyboard. They're mostly marketed towards gamers, who need the precision, but they work great for typing.
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-choose-the-best-mechanical-keyboard-and-why...
Right?
I hoarded several of those old Dell keyboards with the heavy keys. Felt more like a typewriter to my old ass. And real backspace keys.
Felt more like a typewriter
I think you're using it wrong.
Atex
Atex was a Kodak company in Billerica, at least near the end of its existence. I worked for another Kodak company about a mile away, and got to eat at the Atex cafeteria. It was a really good cafeteria. I know next to nothing about the actual Atex machines, because our product was in a different field. Oh, and the Atex building had a big Linotype-Hell machine in the lobby.
That is all.
A Different "Herald" In A Different City ...
... but this video shows what it took to publish a newspaper, in the not too distant past. It's quite amazing!