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To: GoLightly

Me too. Maybe that's why my typing looks goofy.


874 posted on 09/09/2004 6:10:50 PM PDT by SolomoninSouthDakota
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To: SolomoninSouthDakota

Me three, and I wonder why my spelling/grammar check always wants to change it.


883 posted on 09/09/2004 6:18:02 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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LOL. Here is what is now up at the Selectric Museum ...

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For those who want my opinion...the documents appear to be done in Word, and then copied repeatedly to make them "fuzzy". They use features that were not available on office typewriters the 1970s, specifically the combination of proportional spacing with superscript font. The IBM Executive has proportional spacing, but used fixed type bars. The Selectric has changeable type elements, but fixed spacing (some models could be selected at 10 or 12 pitch, but that's all). The Selectric Composer was not an office typewriter, but apparently did use proportional spacing. These were very expensive machines, used by printing offices, not administrative offices. At least my low opinion of TV news remains intact.

http://www.selectric.org/selectric/
Selectric Typewriter Museum-IBM Selectric Typewriters


887 posted on 09/09/2004 6:19:31 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: SolomoninSouthDakota

I still try to make letters look darker by striking the key harder. ;o)


903 posted on 09/09/2004 6:32:32 PM PDT by GoLightly
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