[Cboldt]

Really. Enlighten the rest of us. Preferrably, drop us a link to some available product info to back it up.

See post 485. It is an IBM ad. It shows the proportional spacing of the Executive model typewriter.

[TastyManatees]

O.K., that's step one. Now, does anyone know or can anyone point to instructions on how the Executive worked? If it was a giant pain, like the Composer, it would be very unlikely that anyone in Bush's Guard office sat around all day typing memos to their personal files with it. However, if the proportional spacing was incredibly easy to use, then the documents would be more likely to be authentic.

Like I said, I think it would be a lot more useful to see a reference guide or operating instructions, as opposed to another worthless, "I used to use it, and it was the bomb!" testimonial. I'm probably asking too much, but maybe there's an expert with a clue listening in.

(And, in a related question, if the Executive was so great, what kind of idiot marketing guy convinced IBM to sell the Composer at the same time as an easier to use model?)