[MineralMan]

"You should call CNS News. Their experts say the "golf ball" typewriter (the IBM Selectric Composer) was the only one to do this at the time, they cost $20,000, and they weren't widely used.
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Then their experts are not experts. They're incorrect. The IBM Executive was introduced in the 1940's and I guarandamntee you it had proportional fonts.

[Fresh Wind]

I say forget the typewriter.

The phony signature is the real smoking gun.

[daylate-dollarshort]

"The IBM Executive was introduced in the 1940's and I guarandamntee you it had proportional fonts."

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According to IBM the Executive was introduced in the 1950's and used the traditional hammer style type . Hammer type cannot produce proportional "fonts".

[TastyManatees]

Heh. The expert who said that was "Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Agfa Monotype in Wilmington, Mass." Give CNS News a call and tell them you know better.

[dinasour]

The originals and the word mock up superimpose nearly pixel for pixel !!!

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12526

See: UPDATE at 9/9/04 11:28:55 am:

I don't care if a $5000 typewriter in 1971 could have produced proportional fonts, this is not posible.