Si, como no! In fact, here's a picture of Dan's hat... 
Posted on 09/11/2004 2:41:47 PM PDT by airedale
Someone else mentioned a website that is dedicated tot the IBM Selectric Composer. The link above will take you to that website. Besides being around four times more expensive to purchase than a regular IBM Selectric the website had a bit of information about the IBM Selectric Composer that hasn't been mentioned in anything I've seen so far. It seems you have to type everything twice perfectly when you use the Composer. Here is that section from the ibmcomposer.org website: click here
"The first IBM Composer was the IBM "Selectric" Composer announced in 1966. It was a hybrid "Selectric" typewriter that was modified to have proportional spaced fonts. It is 100% mechanical and has no digital electronics. Since it has no memory, the user was required to type everything twice. While typing the text the first time, the machine would measure the length of the line and count the number of spaces. When the user finished typing a line of text, they would record special measurements into the right margin of the paper. Once the entire column of text was typed and measured, it would then be retyped, however before typing each line, the operator would set the special justification dial (on the right side) to the proper settings, then type the line. The machine would automatically insert the appropriate amount of space between words so that all of the text would be justified."
Now the guy who supposedly prepared this documents per his son didn't type. Who in the world that isn't an expert typist and didn't have a specific reason in document production is going to type ordinary documents twice? The only reason I can think of is that either your in advertising and you need it for an ad or your publishing a book.
Actually Geraldo is less offensive than Dan "D*cko" Rather.
That's about as plausible an explanation as one can come up with. Or, maybe, the source had a hundred monkeys with typewriters in a room for years and eventually one of them typed the memo.
ROTFLMAO! It's so ooooooooooooooooooover.
They both have the same amount of credibility... which in none. ok... ok... i'd send Geraldo to a war zone :^D
Or centered text using proportional fonts which two of the memos had.
Not to say I believe any of this, but back in the olden days, they had secretaries.
When this is all said and done, Dan Rather won't even be able to get work as a substitute host on Al Jazeera.
The man didn't have a home office either. Since this was a memo to himself, where did it come from?
He'll be MORE offensive if he wears those stupid yellow rainslicker pants again, when he serves as the FOX "Danger Boy" during the upcoming hurricane.
Who'd have guessed that Michael Moore would come across as more trustworthy than Dan Rather in this day and age?!
Nah.
Dan makes Geraldo look like Jesus Christ. Dan is EVIl, comprende?
Good point, yes, you're right. Still, this has been covered before.
Wrong. It's been tried & could not be done. Even an IBM composer expert could not recreate the CBS memos.
Proof Here. It's not possible to recreate these on any typwiter avaialable the early 1970's.
Not Possible. No chance. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. It cannot be done.
"proportional spacing and justification are two different things."
Don't forget the kerning....typewriters don't do kerning
Si, como no! In fact, here's a picture of Dan's hat...
Check this post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1213368/posts
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