Paolo Pizzi wrote:

llortamai wrote:

http://www.drudgereport.com/

32-year-old documents produced Wednesday by CBSNEWS 60 MINS on Bush's
guard service may have been forged using a current word processing
program.

typed using a proportional font, not common at that time, and they
used a superscript font feature found in today's Microsoft Word
program, Internet reports claim... Developing...


Developing? Actually already DEBUNKED!!!

Electric ball typewriters could do that, and the US government
had lots of them.

BZZZZTTT!!! Wrong! The Selectric could not do proportional spacing. I
worked for IBM and worked on the Selectric units that were use as the
output device for the System 360 mainframe console. You haven't a clue
about which you speak.

Sir Cumference wrote:

Electric ball typewriters could do that, and the US government
had lots of them.


BZZZZTTT!!! Wrong! The Selectric could not do proportional spacing. I
worked for IBM and worked on the Selectric units that were use as the
output device for the System 360 mainframe console. You haven't a clue
about which you speak.



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Composing typewriters


Derogatorily called "Strike-on" composition, the composing typewriter
was used for camera-ready copy in the quick-print business, in academic
publishing, and small weeklies, where cost and turn-around were the
driving factors. The best were capable of proportional spacing,
justification, and handling multiple fonts. The familiar IBM Executive
and Selectric can be considered to be in the low-end of this family; the
IBM Composing Selectric was a computer-driven, auto-justifying, high-end
system.

* Friden Justowriters (2)
* Varitypers (2) with 60 fonts
* Densmore
* Underwood
* L.C.Smith
* NCR
* IBM Composing Selectric (4) (w/o computer or tape units, but w/
multiple type balls)
* other

http://www.museumofprinting.com/inventory/invty.html


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Composing typewriters


Derogatorily called "Strike-on" composition, the composing typewriter
was used for camera-ready copy in the quick-print business, in academic
publishing, and small weeklies, where cost and turn-around were the
driving factors. The best were capable of proportional spacing,
justification, and handling multiple fonts. The familiar IBM Executive
and Selectric can be considered to be in the low-end of this family; the
IBM Composing Selectric was a computer-driven, auto-justifying, high-end
system.



OK, and how common was such fancy equipment in bureaucratic orginizations in
which pre-printed forms were expected to be filled out with a typwriter with
fixed spacing?

Frank Dresser