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The most tireless, and damning evaluation, including IBM Selectric Composer typeups!
Shape of Days blog ^ | 9-10-04 | Shape of Days blog

Posted on 09/10/2004 10:41:09 PM PDT by Crazieman

Whenever the topic has turned to the Selectric Composer, it has been dismissed out-of-hand as being far too expensive an item to find in an office on an Air National Guard base: The machine sold for anywhere from $3,600 to $4,400, and fonts were extra and not cheap. Furthermore, the Composer was widely agreed to be far too complicated and slow a machine to use for typing up memoranda, especially ones that were destined to go into a file and not even be distributed.

But the nagging question remained: Could an IBM Selectric Composer have been used to produce these documents?

I found my answer the same place everybody finds everything these days: Google. Typing "IBM Selectric Composer" into that search site took me to the aptly named ibmcomposer.org, which describes itself as "the only site on the Internet completely dedicated to the IBM 'Selectric' Composer line of typesetting machines." The site, which is run by Gerry Kaplan, includes information, scanned user manuals, and photographs of the only working IBM Selectric Composer I've been able to find. And, fortunately for me, it also includes an e-mail address.

When I first heard back from Gerry, I felt a little bad for having bothered him. He'd been fielding calls and letters all day, he told me, including an inquiry from CNN. But he was a trouper, willing — enthusiastic even — to help out.

I asked Gerry, in a fit of hubris, if he wouldn't mind trying to reproduce a sample from one of the CBS memos on his Selectric Composer. Just over an hour later, he emailed me back a sample, typed up on his Composer using the 11-point Press Roman type ball and scanned into his computer.

(Excerpt) Read more at shapeofdays.typepad.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ibm; kerrygate; killian; rathergate; selectricgate
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To: Crazieman

Thanx for providing proof.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1212408/posts?page=445#445


21 posted on 09/10/2004 11:26:16 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: Dan Evans

Everyone stopped talking about him, cept occasionally in passing. nyuk nyuk nyuk

Bush/Cheney have rolled out with some wonderful new ads, all positive, no comparisons or even mention of what's his name. Wonder if they're national or if they're just in locations like mine (battleground).


22 posted on 09/10/2004 11:30:32 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: rolling_stone

Neat!~ and too much more.


23 posted on 09/10/2004 11:40:08 PM PDT by noodler
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To: Arnold Zephel

I love it...Great work!


24 posted on 09/10/2004 11:50:30 PM PDT by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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To: Crazieman

I would say the most dangerous hoax aver perpetrated in the U.S.

What we have here is a criminal conspiracy by CBS to use forged military documents to influence a federal election. Martha Stewart, anyone?


25 posted on 09/10/2004 11:52:29 PM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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To: js1138

Whats scarier is that they'll probably get away with it. I see Ivan swamping all coverage and it will go the way of berger-gate. :(


26 posted on 09/10/2004 11:54:08 PM PDT by Crazieman (Hanoi John Effin Kerry. War Criminal. Traitor. Democrat.)
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To: Crazieman

It would be a good idea to bookmark this page and click the Make Available Offline box.


27 posted on 09/10/2004 11:54:49 PM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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To: Crazieman

But Bush will be dismissing all future questions about the Guard.


28 posted on 09/10/2004 11:55:56 PM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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To: js1138

True. They can't drag it up again. Effective innoculation against further "bombshell documents"


29 posted on 09/10/2004 11:57:08 PM PDT by Crazieman (Hanoi John Effin Kerry. War Criminal. Traitor. Democrat.)
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To: Arnold Zephel

Looks real to me ;~)


30 posted on 09/10/2004 11:59:00 PM PDT by ninonitti
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To: Crazieman

EXCELLENT!

It will be noted that the y in May on the forged document nestles it's tail under the a in May. The Composer sample does not. The y stands off. That nestled y tail is the result of kerning and was not possible by strictly mechanical means.

We must make the Dems, CBS, and all their other minions eat this forgery! They tried to defraud the American public and now they have the utter gall to defend their attempt at fraud. I am really tired of these people.


31 posted on 09/11/2004 12:09:01 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: claudiustg
This really will be the determination of whether we can fight against a communist media conglomerate or if it will all be flushed down the memory hole.

A very, very, very serious US vs THEM situation. That means put every talent to work and freep the hell out of every sponsor, affiliate, and department connected to CBS.

Get the word out to every competitor, hound the competitors with accurate information.
32 posted on 09/11/2004 12:12:21 AM PDT by Crazieman (Hanoi John Effin Kerry. War Criminal. Traitor. Democrat.)
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To: js1138

---What we have here is a criminal conspiracy by CBS to use forged military documents to influence a federal election. Martha Stewart, anyone?---

A criminal conspiracy involving the DNC, CBS, and the Kerry campaign, and perhaps others.


33 posted on 09/11/2004 12:12:32 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: Crazieman

bttt


34 posted on 09/11/2004 12:19:18 AM PDT by twntaipan (CBS News: The News of Choice of Frauds and Forgers Everywhere!)
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To: claudiustg
A criminal conspiracy involving the DNC, CBS, and the Kerry campaign, and perhaps others.

This makes Watergate look trivial by comparison.

35 posted on 09/11/2004 12:20:57 AM PDT by twntaipan (CBS News: The News of Choice of Frauds and Forgers Everywhere!)
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To: Crazieman

I am so tired of seeing these people round the corners off every fact!


36 posted on 09/11/2004 12:22:09 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: twntaipan

---This makes Watergate look trivial by comparison.---

It really does, doesn't it? The lies coming off these people! It's like the Devil himself is in their midst.


37 posted on 09/11/2004 12:31:50 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: Crazieman

ping


38 posted on 09/11/2004 12:36:01 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Anti-Bubba182
I can't imagine a non-typist Officer going through all of the gymnastics required to produce the memo

Exactly. And for what purpose?

It's a hoax.

39 posted on 09/11/2004 12:54:12 AM PDT by GVnana (If I had a Buckhead moment would I know it?)
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To: GVgirl
Exactly. And for what purpose?

Maybe to show young Bill Gates the exact default settings he should use if he were to ever happen to form a soft ware company that made a word processor.

You never know. I mean there is a finite possibility that all the molecules in the ink of original documents started missing each other when they were bouncing around, affecting the font...it could happen...

40 posted on 09/11/2004 2:26:24 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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