The Wang word processor hit the markets in 1976. Prior to that, there were other word processors, but I don't know anything about them.
At any rate, this is obviously from a word processor, not a typewriter.
The Wang word processor hit the markets in 1976. Prior to that, there were other word processors, but I don't know anything about them.As I recall, the word processor that had the corner on the legal market at that time was Vydec -- a large, brutish machine whose biggest drawback was that each page had to be stored individually (no automatic pagination). If you forgot to save the page, you lost everything, and there was no way to get it back other than to retype it.
I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the military was not real up to date with their office equipment. It would really surprise me to learn that they had any new typewriters, especially during war time. But I am really just guessing about that.