Would a guy who doesn't type really go through this procedure of centering when typing a memo to himself?
If that is the case, then why can't I get my husband to put the socks in the hamper instead of next to it?
"Would a guy who doesn't type really go through this procedure of centering when typing a memo to himself?
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Well, of course not. I said as much.
My point here, as it has been in all of this is to debunk things people are saying that are simply not true. The document is a forgery, but what's in these threads is a hash of half-truths, non-truths, and just plain silliness.
Yesterday, I tried to do this.
Proportional type was available on the IBM Executive typewriter, not on the Selectric, except for the Selectric Composer, which certainly would not have been in that office. The IBM Executive could have been, however.
The IBM Executive allowed for replacing individual type bars. I know for a fact that one available set offered the superscript "th", "rd", "st" and "nd" as superscript characters for use in typing ordinal numbers. Would that have been in this office? Perhaps. Since unit designations are often written as ordinal numbers, logic says that such a machine might have been available. The military did all sorts of strange things as experiments.
It is indeed possible to center text...on any typewriter. I just described how to do it.
The odds of all this coming together are miniscule. The document is a forgery. BUT...it's incorrect to say that the document absolutely could NOT have been created at that time. It COULD have been. It was not, but it COULD have been.
There has been so much misinformation here about the technology of 1972, written mostly by people who weren't even alive then, or by people who never used the modern office equipment of the day.
There are those here who did use the equipment, who were in the USAF at the time. I saw IBM Executive typewriters in the headquarters office of my detachment at Ft. Meade in Maryland in 1968. I have USED that typewriter and have typed superscript ordinal number endings. I KNOW that capability existed. I have centered headings more times than I want to remember. I KNOW that one of the typefaces on the IBM Executive is very similar to the face in the Times New Roman TT font in Windows.
I also am quite certain that this document is a fraud.
LOL.
Let's find out if Killian used the hamper.
"If that is the case, then why can't I get my husband to put the socks in the hamper instead of next to it?"
Look, we are putting them near the hamper to save YOU some work. If we didn't care about you, we would simply toss them to the other side of the room. It's the same reason we don't need a glass in the middle of the night when we drink from the milk carton.....this saves you work. Besides, every man must be ready for an emergency, so we leave them out like a good fireman leaves his boots ready. Look at it this way, we are ready to save your life!
Now about that old rumor that we should put the lid down.......LOL
Oh, and remember..to you it's a nest, to many of us...... it's a cave! LOL
The hamper is in the wrong spot? Plus, socks have been known to escape from my dryer, what makes you think they can't get out of a simple hamper? :)
Two reasons: 1) The lid of the hamper isn't open, therefore causing the socks to fall off after he placed them on top of the hamper, and 2) the hamper is in the wrong place, and this is a way to rebel.