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clifto wrote:

Dan wrote:

These things are such obvious fakes that, if CBS had *any* integrity
left at all, Dan Rather should be fired on the spot.


The lies continue and compound.

http://progresssivetrail.org/articles/040911Peralta.shtml says,
"1. Times New Roman Fonts did not exist in 1972.

"The Times New Roman font was developed in 1931 by Stanley Morison,
Typographical Advisor to the Monotype Corporation who adapted the
font to the IBM selectric [sic] Typewriter in 1947."

The font *may* have been developed in 1931; Morison was NOT advisor to
Monotype Corporation, but to the Times (newspaper) of London. Victor
Lardent of the Times actually drew the original design.

The IBM Selectric [tm] Typewriter was introduced in 1961. To my knowledge,
there was never a proportional-space version of the Selectric. Certainly
the mechanics of the Selectric would have made proportional spacing
very difficult if not impossible.


The Selectric Composer could do proportional font spacing, but it was a
high-quality, high-end, expensive unit used mostly by commercial
printing firms for producing camera ready type or firms needing
high-quality printing. And they were not easy to use or repair.

SC,

Did a typewriter exist that could mimic these features ?

Some suggest that an IBM Selectric Composer could have been
used, theoretically, to type the memos. But with a $4,000
{in 1970s Dollars} price tag, it's unlikely that a small
National Guard office would have had one. - N O ! -

~ RHF

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