Posted on 09/10/2004 3:18:38 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 09/10/2004 4:53:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
LOL! Yep, although I don't think even Rod Serling could have made up villians as evil as those who are media types and democrats!
In the army, 1970 to 74 at battalion (LTC)command level, we had manual underwoods mostly. I cut far too many stencils to ever forget.
If there was an electric someplace, it was in the S1 (personnel) shop and no one else had one. There's no way the battalion level budget would have justified spending over a few hundred bucks for an electric typewriter at battalion level in those days.
The Air Force typically was better provisioned than the Army, but not to the tune of extremely rare, rich typewriters.
JMHO
Yes. And you need a kitten. Call the kitten Couric. The kitten can do the biting commentary.
They're like Muslims. They fight each other as much as they fight everyone else.
New York was the original Mac font with serifs -- not that this really matters for anything, and I really don't want to flog a dead horse when there are more important things going on .
Anyway, if you're interested, take a look at http://www.wap.org/journal/fontsoverview/fontsquickoverview.html, for instance. Here are some excerpts:
When the Macintosh was introduced in January 1984, the first thing users noticed were the fonts. Prior to the Macintosh, computers generally displayed everything on screen in a single, monospaced font. In contrast, most of the Macintosh "city" fonts (Athens, Chicago, Geneva, London, New York, San Francisco, Venice) were proportionally spaced fonts, and only one -- Monaco -- was a monospaced font. Almost overnight, the Macintosh became a darling of amateur typographers, and hundreds of shareware fonts sprang into being.
A couple years later Apple introduced PostScript printing with the LaserWriter, and typography really took off. The LaserWriter was capable of reproducing commercial-quality printing, and the original "city" fonts were banished, replaced by Avant Garde, Bookman, Courier, Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, Symbol, Times, and Zapf Chancery.
Progress, however, often has casualties, as it did this time: the very simple Macintosh now seemed to be beset by all kinds of font confusion. New York looked much like Times, Palatino, Bookman and New Century Schoolbook.
. . .
Times, one of the most widely used fonts in the world, was created for the body text of The Times of London. All PostScript printers include Times as a standard font, and a variant, Times Roman, is the default font on all non-PostScript laser printers by Hewlett-Packard and Canon.
Recall that the original Mac didn't have a laser printer or any PostScript printing available. Printing was typically to an ImageWriter printer via QuickDraw, using bitmapped images.
All this is in the interest of accuracy and nostalgia, not argumentativeness :-). It's hard to believe we're looking back 20 years now.
It's an excellent list, MK. Thanks for compiling.
But shouldn't I name the kitty,"KELLY"? LOL
Dan is clearly living in a world where he runs the news and no one can question him. Technology has completely passed him by and it shows.
This is how the Viet Nam war was turned into a disaster when it could have been a success, No one could question the alphabet networks because no one had the means. They were free to frame the news anyway they wanted to. Couple the alphabet networks and the dims in congress(like Fulbright) and viola, you get Kerry the fake hero.
It's odd how history repeats, because the dims are trying the whole Viet Nam scam today with Iraq.
Poor Dan...
Two kittens. The morning show could be a cat fight. (Sorry cat-o-philes) It would be great with voice overs.
bttt
Thank you for that. I hunted for half an hour on Google, and could not find so thorough a treatment, or anything close.
"The claim I've read is that the type was available for printing machines, not for typewriters. Is Rather claiming that these documents were produced in a printer shop instead of an office typewriter?"
The distinction is between a typeWRITER and a typeSETTER, Rather almost certainly knows the difference but he will not mention it.
Thank the Freepers.
They've been nailing this right and left and pinging me everywhere. They are spot on.
I'm just typing and pasting and copying.
CBS has 48 hours to decide what to do. They've gotten an extra day because of the hurricane. Noicew that as yet, no on from CBS NEWS executive ranks,,or corporate, has spoken on the record..only Rather has addressed it.. Which means they're assessing just now bad it is..
This isn't 1968,it isn't even 1971,and in 2004,the old tricks are NOT going to work any more. :-)
100% correct about the MSM losing the Viet War along with Kommie Kerry.
I'll never forget Mike Wallace and Peter Jennings saying in a video I have that they'd not warn a US patrol walking into an ambush, since it would ruin the "story."
Harvard's "Ethics in America" Series. I used it when teaching ethics to troops from approx. 1988 to 2002. It was striking.
Cats don't usually fight each other,no matter what cat-o-phobes might think. :-)
I guess the distinction is that whomever it was that pulled the hoax used a 1972 typesetter and thought they could pull it off. Clever, but not clever enough to fool the freepers.
I wonder if Marcel did Kerry's "replacement" citations?
Yes. I don't think I ever saw Arial font on a Mac, which appears in that Font menu, until after it was common on Windows; I always assumed it was introduced for Windows compatibility.
But then that's a screenshot from a German system. I have no idea what would have been included with that.
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