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To: justanotherfreeper

I believe the little th was on some balls but not all. My old Brother (which is a disk system) is the same way...it is on some but not all. You want to look at an IBM KEYBOARD.


656 posted on 09/09/2004 12:58:19 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Sacajaweau
The IBM Executive (not Selectric) didn't use balls, it was a fixed set of keys. It did have a superscript "tm" (for trademark) There were a couple of different models of Executive typewriters, I only had to use the one (thank goodness!) and I don't remember a superscript "th", only "tm" and I think the copyright symbol but I'm not sure about that. I never worked with a proportional IBM Selectric -- again, thank goodness!! Folks forget before computers how HARD using proportional fonts is -- I remember using my first word processor back in '84 (it used those "disk of keys" thingie like your Brother did and eight inch floppy disks), I was thrilled with how professional all the proportional spacing was!

Honestly, if they wanted to forge a document, wouldn't you put a little more thought into it? If this turns out to be forged somebody should be given a ticket for stupidity. There are lots and lots of free "typewriter" fonts on the web designed to look like old monospace typewriters and even to look like old teletype machines, why would you be so foolish as to not use one of those?

818 posted on 09/09/2004 5:16:09 PM PDT by justanotherfreeper
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