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To: narby
The point is that the IBM Executive proportional font had three different space widths.


352 posted on 09/10/2004 1:58:00 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Mrs. NavySEAL reminded me of one important thing about the IBM executive. The letters would continually become out of alignment due to the fragile nature of the key arms. Only a technician could correct the seeming floating letters.


364 posted on 09/10/2004 2:00:09 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16 (Proud to be a Reagan Republican)
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To: Cboldt

I'm most interested in the way the number 4 is done on this machine. Do you know what typefaces were available for this machine?


376 posted on 09/10/2004 2:03:21 PM PDT by jbarkley
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To: Cboldt
This is just off your image, but I don't get the results as seen here. I'm assuming this is Times New Roman. Looks like it.

The purportions of the different letters are not the same. Your example, the five "wwwww" looks about the same length as four "mmmm". A typewriter would have to have some regulularity, while a computer need not. So this makes sense.

In my test, the "wwwww" is just slightly narrower than the "mmmmm". Completly different than your image.

If your example is correct, I still think the font is hugely different. Which would entirely preclude making a duplicate unless every letter was adjusted to match MS Word.

402 posted on 09/10/2004 2:10:30 PM PDT by narby (CBS - The new Democrat 527)
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