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To: bad company

>>So the memo could not have been made with a typewriter.

It could not have been made with MY IBM Selectric using the ordinary Prestige Elite 12 pitch wheel. I don't have a left and right apostrophe, only straight. But maybe a fancier machine, although not in your ordinary Texas Air National Guard office? Maybe the guy was part time and worked full time in a law office or was a business executive?

I have calls in to my old boss, who taught me printing and collects typewriters and old typesetting machines, and my mother, who was a typesetter.

I think this is a question best answered by an expert, maybe someone at IBM, or someone with a specialty in document examination.

But I did read that one expert has already stated that the "4" has a closed top and no "foot" which is ONLY found in Times New Roman, and that Times New Roman is found ONLY on computers.


727 posted on 09/09/2004 2:36:52 PM PDT by CobaltBlue
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To: CobaltBlue

The print pressure is to even also. Mechanical typewriter print varied because of the varying pressure used to tape the letters.


732 posted on 09/09/2004 2:42:54 PM PDT by chainsaw (VOTE AMERICAN - VOTE REPUBLICAN)
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