[RayChuang88]

I think someone who has extensive experience with the current versions of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Photoshop should do an analysis of the documents CBS has. If they find out that the documents were faked there will be h*ll to pay at CBS, Boston Globe and the New York Times. Not to mention the fact that several Democratic National Committee staffers could get the boot.

By the way, IBM's proportional-font typewriters were very rare and VERY expensive back in the 1972-1973 time period. I highly doubt the Texas Air National Guard would have access to such expensive machines back then.

[Cboldt]

By the way, IBM's proportional-font typewriters were very rare and VERY expensive back in the 1972-1973 time period.

IBM typewriter with proportional spacing was introduced in 1941.

IBM announces the Electromatic Model 04 electric typewriter, featuring the revolutionary concept of proportional spacing. By assigning varied rather than uniform spacing to different sized characters, the Type 4 recreated the appearance of a printed page, an effect that was further enhanced by a typewriter ribbon innovation that produced clearer, sharper words on the page. The proportional spacing feature became a staple of the IBM Executive series typewriters.

http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1941.html

On the Executive, you could optionally have removable type-bars. This is somewhat like later Smith-Corona portables which have removable type-slugs on the two outermost type-bars, with corresponding changeable keytop caps. In this case, though, it's the whole type-bar.

http://www.geocities.com/wbd641/TypeManuals2.html