I saw Buckhead’s post within minutes of it being made. I had experience with typewriters and strong experience with PC printing technologies, and immediately knew he had nailed it.
A few days later a gif someone made of CBS’s fake memo fading into a Microsoft Word document with default settings (they were basically identical) made the fakery obvious to anyone with half a brain cell.
It still took a couple/few weeks for CBS to admit it.
“I saw Buckhead’s post within minutes of it being made.”
Me, too.
“I had experience with typewriters and strong experience with PC printing technologies, and immediately knew he had nailed it.”
Ditto. I was “setting type” via newfangled word processing in the mid-’70s (Wang, IBM MTST/Composer) so proportional spacing, superscripts, etc. made perfect sense.
The day Rush first covered it I was sitting outside Kaiser Permanente in Woodland Hills, CA, shouting, “Yes!”
Fake but Accurate! I remember! ah the Good ‘ole days! Never Quit Freeping! Gotta get the new Generation...