You're right, Nutmeg. This has been a whirlwind of investigative action. FRee Republic and FReepers rock. Jim must be on cloud nine (along with some other FReeper heros!) Gad, am I ever going to get to bed? LOL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211285/posts?page=129#129
To: Chummy
Here is a sampling of the misinformation put forth on these threads that has already been debunked:
Budding Myth #1: "Proportional fonts were not available til the 80's."
Debunked: Proportional fonts were available on IBM typewriters in 1941.
Budding Myth #2: "Times New Roman font wasn't invented until 1988."
Debunked: The Times New Roman font was designed in 1931 by Stanley Morison, Typographical Advisor to the Monotype Corporation, with the assistance of draughtsman Victor Lardent.
Budding Myth #3: "There was no '4' available without a foot and the top closed."
Debunked: The IBM Selectric Composer Pressman Roman (Times New Roman) font of 1968 has exactly the right '4'.
Budding Myth #4: "The document was altered because one of the 'y's' is different from another 'y'."
Debunked: All typos made with typewriters were corrected by "altering" the document.
Budding Myth #5: "You need to use a complicated guage system to backspace with an IBM Selectric Composer typewriter."
Debunked: The IBM Selectric had a memory system that automatically adjusted the backstroke to exactly match the letter widths of the previously typed text as far back as 1968.
Budding Myth #6: "The type of typewriter that could do this would have cost $20,000 dollars back then."
Debunked: At least one type of typewriter that could do this was available for around $300.
These may be forgeries, but not because of any of the above reasons.
129 posted on 09/09/2004 11:36:07 PM EDT by TaxRelief
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And we were there.......something to tell our grandchildren.