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To: fat city

From this web page, http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Typewriter we find the following history of the electric typewriter:
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Selectric mechanisms were widely incorporated into computer terminals in the 1970s, ... .

Later models of Selectrics ... introduced selectable "pitch" so that the typewriter could be switched among pica ("10 pitch"), elite ("12 pitch"), and sometimes agate ("15 pitch"), even in one document. Even so, all Selectrics were monospaced -- each and every character was the same width. Although IBM had produced a successful typebar-based machine, the IBM Executive, with proportional spacing, no proportionally-spaced Selectric office typewriter was ever introduced. There was, however, a much more expensive proportionally-spaced machine called the Selectric Composer which was considered a typesetting machine rather than a typewriter.


92 posted on 09/08/2004 10:05:40 PM PDT by Buckhead
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Sounds right-- I couldn't remember if the font was proportionally spaced or the words. Regardless, it was not used for anything less than formal projects. Hey, I was a 20-year old GI in Germany- lucky I can remember seeing a typewriter at all.
101 posted on 09/08/2004 10:10:22 PM PDT by fat city (Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
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