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To: sinkspur

Be careful with this. The IBM Executive typewriter used proportional fonts, and was a staple in the military. It was first introduced in the late 1950s.



Could it do superscripts with reduced font size like in memos 1 and 4?


149 posted on 09/09/2004 9:02:57 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Beelzebubba

"Could it do superscripts with reduced font size like in memos 1 and 4?"

Yup, it could. A superscript "th" and "st" were available. They were treated as a single character and were one of the characters above the numbers. It was an option. IBM sold Executive typewriters with a whole range of special characters, for foreign languages, mathematics, etc. You wouldn't believe.


267 posted on 09/09/2004 9:52:38 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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