[Right Wing Professor]

But what you are doing with the IBM Executive option is dishonest, unless you tell folks how bizarre and difficult it was to create proportional type on an IBM Executive, and how remote the chance would be that this would have been done on a memo in the TANG in 1972.

You don't understand. It wasn't difficult to create proportional type; the typewriter did that automatically. I'm a terrible typist, and I used one of these things. The hard part was to right-justify, and these memos are not right-justified.

[TastyManatees]

It wasn't difficult to create proportional type; the typewriter did that automatically. I'm a terrible typist, and I used one of these things.

Well, let's see if everyone else shares your assessment of the IBM Selectric Composer.

Here is a link explaining how it worked (with pictures).

O.K., so other than purchasing the most expensive typewriter on the market for the purpose of typing up notes to your personal files, all you have to do is:

1. Type a line.
2. Record the number and color of the typed line on the typewriter's ruler...separately and by hand.
3. Type the next line, repeat recording process, until done with entire document.
4. Re-type the entire document line-by-line, checking your notes to make sure that you properly set a dial to a unique number and color combination for each line.
5. Voila! You're done.

Well, that certainly doesn't seem like a giant pain in the posterior...