Funny note on Selectric website (shut down by excessive hits)

Selectric website ^ | 9/9/04 | unknown

[GaretGarrett]

Sorry, but due to excessive hits, this page is temporarily out of service. 

Please check back after the election.

For those who want my opinion...the documents appear to be done in Word, and then copied repeatedly to make them "fuzzy".  They use features that were not available on office typewriters the 1970s, specifically the combination of proportional spacing with superscript font.  The IBM Executive has proportional spacing, but used fixed type bars.  The Selectric has changeable type elements, but fixed spacing (some models could be selected at 10 or 12 pitch, but that's all).  The Selectric Composer was not an office typewriter, but apparently did use proportional spacing.  These were very expensive machines, used by printing offices, not administrative offices.

Here are scans of the Courier 12 font, and the Prestige Elite 72 font.  Both were commonly used, and are sort of close to the font in the documents, but not quite.  Notice that they are not proportionally spaced, so the typing looks very different from that on the memos.  There is a superscript available for numbers, as used with footnotes, on the Symbol type balls.  These balls were generally used for academics, such as preparing scientific and mathematical papers.  I can find no "th" superscript in any of the IBM literature I have.

These are scans from a mid-1970s IBM Selectric Typewriter Type Styles brochure, IBM publication G542-0053-7, which does not appear to be explicitly copywrited.

At least my low opinion of TV news remains intact.

[GaretGarrett]

Saw a panicked post on DU that even Selectric was calling the docs forgeries so I went there & saw this.

[Nataku X]

bwahahaaaaaaaaa ... sending this off to Drudge!

[Liberty Tree Surgeon]

CHUCKLE!

[flashbunny]

hahhahahahahahahhahahahaha


kerry is soo much toast.

[Izzy Dunne]

Who is this?

Pretty dumb to put up a page about "my opinion" and not even offer a name.

Who is it?

[GeoPie]

Now that is funny!

[groundrat66]

jim forbes

[Vision Thing]

The guy who runs the site has posted his email address on other pages of the site.

The following link seems to be the root page for the Selectric / Opinion page: Selectric Typewriter Museum

[sonsofliberty2000]

I love politics! This is classic!

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Patriot Paradox

[blue-duncan]

Oh darn! Does this mean that Senator Harkins was mistaken again?

[hispanarepublicana]

Yeah.....I saw a DU'er post titled "How do you know the Selectric site owner isn't a FReeper?"

ROFLOL! It seems EVERYONE'S a FReeper.

SO PROUD to be part of this group tonight.

[mass55th]

Rofl...that's a riot!!!

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Oh darn! Does this mean that Senator Harkins was mistaken again?

Still. Harkin is always mistaken.

[RogueIsland]

It seems EVERYONE'S a FReeper.

I have it on good authority that at least 86% of DU posters are Freeper infiltrators. I suggest they conduct a purge to root them out.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The DUmmies define a Freeper this way;

Anyone who isn't a hard leftist Kool Aid drinker is a Freeper.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

My sources gave me the same number. They better get busy.

[piasa]

Don't do that, I've been on there almost since they started.

[JediForce]

This has to be one of the most entertaining election seasons in American politics in quite some time. I think the Founding Fathers' are looking down upon us all and smiling...if not outright belly-laughing. It just gets better everyday :-)

[Cicero]

By golly, it's not a joke. It's really there. Good catch.

[mylife]

Hilarious!