ETOIN SHRDLU bump. Anybody know that one besides me?
The lino keyboard actually had vertical rows of each letter in different sizes.
Wasn't that what they wanted to do the original "home row" as, but found that it was to efficient and typists were tangling up their strike keys??
I have two references for that. First, I believe it was the nonsense string used to indicate the break between two stories. Second, there was a humor writer who used a story line about a cat and a mouse that lived in the composition room and wrote satire at night and this was his tagline but I can't remember names.
I did, however use the IBM Compositor back in 1974, the only possible device that would have produced the kerned, proportional spacing in the memo but not the superscript.
Just remembered the names of the cat and mouse,(see my earlier reply) Archie and Mehetebel. Ring and bells?