[Future Useless Eater]

As for the forged 60 minutes documents...

FoxNews mentioned that these types of memos almost CERTAINLY were done on TYPEWRITERS back in 1972. And its almost impossible to fathom that any office had a word processor that could do both PROPORTIONAL SPACING back then AND smaller font superscripts.

Fox is right. These documents could NOT have been done on a word processor in 1972, but there is ANOTHER ANGLE that I haven't heard yet...

PRINTERS!

People should recall how crude printers were in the past. I had a DOT-MATRIX printer roughly 1983 to 1987, and it was fairly expensive. Waaaaay too crude to do this type of document.

And way back in 1972, computers were so rare and huge they sat in large airconditioned rooms and everyone had to time-share them!

These are ABSOLUTELY FORGERIES. CBS shall be hanged.

[DB]

The IBM Selectric ball type electric typewriter could do proportional print but not the super script shown on the "document". I believe a typesetter would be the only one that could produce the document as it is shown in 1972.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Absolutely the ONLY possiblility is an IBM Selectric. However, I never saaw one with a Times Roman ball. Standard was Courier, some offices had Italic, and if you were really lucky you had one called Primary (or something like that) that made a large print that you could use for headlines. Nothing was proportional and you certainly couldn't make a superscript unless you rolled the platen up halfway and then it would never be even with the next time you made a superscript unless you were a crack typist.

Each ball was quite expensive in 1972 becaue I dropped one and broke it when I was working for the Boy Scouts. I didn't get my pay docked, but I was pretty worried for a while. I can't imagine a government office investing in special balls beyond italic.