I used the IBM Composer in a print shop environment around 1974. The back up key only backed up the number of "picas" of the last letter typed. You had to either count all the picas in each letter to back up to correct a mistake, or catch your mistake immediately, before typing more than one character. Being impeccably accurate was a much preferred alternative. I was one of those thousands who saw the truth in Buckhead's post and followed the story's unfolding all night long. Long may you live in the annals of FR!
LOL, I never worked using an IBM Composer and don't even know what a "picas" is! Sounds like a Turkey dropping to me, gobble gobble!
One of the memos above was proferred by Mapes et al as vintage 1972 typewritten documentation--
--the other was composed by yours truly on Microsoft Word thirty-two years later following the Buckhead Brouhaha.
May-ree, May-ree, May-ree, Girl, you got some 'splainin' to do.
