Is this the one? Hard to make out the keys, but I think I see a th over there by the "PO Box 34567" key.
Posted on 09/15/2004 10:00:21 AM PDT by ceo-vrwc
Having pulled guard duty on F-102 alert aircraft for close to a year in Korea (1969) these planes were strictly interceptors relying on rail mouted air to air missles as well as larger long range air to air in the side bays. They were big, slow accelerating single engine, delta winged aircraft without any machine guns or cannons making them great for long range interception of Soviet Bear bombers but terrible against NV fighters which is why they were relegated to ANG duty after that lesson was painfully learned with the loss of 20 or so of them. And this is why GWB was not called up, he would have to have been retrained in a new aircraft (F-4 Phantom) at a time when the war was winding down and there was an abundance of properly trained regualar AF pilots available.
You are quite welcome
I have one, and I said I was going to look at it when this stuff started flying, but I haven't. It has all kinds of special junk on it, very nice machine.
CBS will feel they have struck gold in....(Are you ready?)
Forge Knox.
Well, I have a Thinker Toys Keyed-Up 8080, with an S100 bus and a text video adapter. I has a full 48 K of RAM on memory cards, and a floppy drive controller. I have the 8-inch drive that I never got around to connecting.
I couldn't swear to it, but I think it did have a th key. I remember some typewriter from the 70s that I used that had a th key, because I thought it interesting that there were no corresponding st or nd keys. I figured that there was only one 1st, one 2nd, but lots and lots of 111ths.
Regardless, neither the Olympia or any other manual typewriter I used had proportional spacing.
Hmm, the only bidders are karl_rove and CBS_News.
Is this the one? Hard to make out the keys, but I think I see a th over there by the "PO Box 34567" key.
I understand speaking fondly of a typewriter. I have a 1950 vintage Olympia that does superscriipt amongst other things. It is a wonderful machine. I am especially fond of Olymppias and Royals in my conglomeration. They are truely wonderful.
I'm only 61 and on some days, I have to stop and think not only what I might have had for breakfast, but IF I had breakfast. My mother is 87 and I can vouch for the fact, that while she's competent and has no real mental deficit, her memory is, shall we say, fungible.
True. I'm 46, and my memory often fails me.
I loved my selectric more than I did my first IBM computer, even! Funny how these things stick with you. M
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