History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting

I rescued this mystery book from the library: rest's Bright Dart, V.C.Clinton-Baddeley; 1967 Great Britain; 1979 US.

The following note was on the last page. I learned a new word--colophon.

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COLOPHON

This book represents a milestone in the history of publishing and printing. For the first time, the entire composition of a book has been created by machines--rather than by man utilizing machines. The previously published British edition of this novel was converted into this "American translation" by means of an Optical Character Recognition system and a computer-driven cathode-ray tube typesetting system. The text was "read" directly from a non-marked up copy of the British edition of an OCR prototype system designed by Mergenthaler Linotype Company, a division of ELTRA Cor- poration. The text was converted into digital, electronic im- pulses for computer input by this new OCR system, the first to be capable of reading intermixed, proportionally-spaced and uncontrolled typography. The author's words then were re- formatted by an IBM 360 computer into a completely new typographical style, with Americanized spelling and punctua- tion. Typesetting into the physical form seen here was per- formed at a speed of 1,000 characters a second by the Linotron 1010, an advanced photocomposition system developed by Mergenthaler Linotype Company and by CBS Laboratories, a division of the Columbia Broadcasting System. The all-electronic composition of this book represents the first successful achievement in the ultimate application of auto- mation technology to a heretofore man-lmited process. Follow- ing earlier milestones in printing such as the invention of mov- able type by Gutenberg and the invention of the linecating machine by Ottmar Mergenthaler, this latest achievement repre- sents another major conceptual advance in the ability of man to communicate in print with his fellow man. Composition by Automatech Graphics Corporation, New York N.Y., in cooperation with Mergenthaler Linotype Company; printed and bound by The Haddon Craftsmen, Scranton, Pa.

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All misspelling, if any, are my typos. The text had right hand margins lined up which I didn't reproduce.