"m II" wrote in message
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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