Hmm...you got me thinking, did they use IBM Executives? I’m not sure if kerning is the right word, but perhaps. I don’t know when those typewriters were made....
>>Hmm...you got me thinking, did they use IBM Executives? I’m not sure if kerning is the right word, but perhaps. I don’t know when those typewriters were made....<<
Kerning was proportional spacing — you could get kerned typeballs (oh how I miss the IBM typewriter’s ability to almost anticipate your next keystroke). But the auto-erase (a separate “white-out” ribbon could get it wrong. That is why we kept good old White-out” on hand anyways)...
It’s not just when they were made, but when they started showing up in working areas inside hospitals. These are not places where you toss a brand new high production machine ~ you use, instead, handmedowns. Typing was very secondary to the process taking place in the maternity ward and at the Birth Records section at the Board of Health.