Not all typewriters, as I recollect.
The most popular unit at the time was probably the IBM Selectric. And, indeed, it employed a monospaced font.
Another IBM unit, the Executive, employed proportionally spacing (and was thus hell to correct, requiring perfect transcription). But, as I recall, it was a sans-serif face.
The typeface on these memos appears to be proportional, but it is also a serifed face (Times New Roman or a similar variant). So, I would doubt the machine was an IBM Executive.
27 posted on 09/09/2004 12:35:58 AM EDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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Actually, my IBM Exective had a Roman (serif) style font. As I noted in other posts, the IBM Executive type styles though proportional, did not look like regular printed fonts, and the Times New Roman used in the memo does not appear to be an Executive type.
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