Typewriter - Pica or Elite were the two settings.
Pica was 12 characters per inch (plus space bar and all punctuation), and Pica was 10 (or vice versa, this was along time ago). One had to manually scroll the roll one half turn to get the (th).
Where are we with characters per inches on these documents?
Also, the difference between IBM typewriters (key ball type of striking) and Selectric or Corona (individual key strike) is interesting. The typing would have been light in a Xerox copy, and copied many times, I'm not certain would have shown up as legible (documents I've received through genealogy research prove this). The IBM typewriter, however, would have been used to strike through the many copies of the forms and left deep and dark marks that uphold well through various copies.
That typewriter would have been with the guy or department that typed the form. Would Killiam use the typewriter that belonged to the form typing guy or use his own typewriter if he wrote this memo? He would have one because he would have correspondence. Would have have the expensive ball-key one? I defer my last question to Military folks who know organization and protocol. I don't know how that works.
OK. Riddle me this: The PDF formatted "documents" are riddled with hundreds of "black dots" - that come ONLY from being copied dozens and dozens of times on a poorly cleaned copier, from an original that is a white sheet of paper.
OK. Fine.
But, why .... IF these "documents" were only just received (from his widow, supposedly - since CBS itself claims they were NOT among those released from the White House..... Why would they have been copied (run through a dirty copier) over and over and over and over again?
WHY make so many repeats of a private document that nobody knew about until yesterday?