prove it- you are making things up in your head now
obviously you have never used a manual typewriter
*sigh* I wish I was that young (but not that naive or immature)
Shouldnt you be on DUh?
When I was in college earlier I used the family MANUAL TYPEWRITER ~ builds muscles fast.
Earlier, in highschool I used electric typewriters.
My mother, way back in the Navy Department in DC during WWII. Where she worked they used the latest and greatest and that had to be the IBM electric with proportional spacing.
BTW, kerning falls within the category of proportional spacing, but it has an added feature of sliding the a under the bar of the t and so forth ~ which is way beyond what the early electrics could do.
I've had several manual and several electric typewriters over the years. I prefer a DEC keyboard myself, but they quit making those decades ago ~ and IBM had a pretty good input keyboard with a big hulking electrical connector plug ~ smooth flowing keys though.
So, what is it you want to talk about regarding typewriters?