There were also optical typesetting machines that would create letters photographically and could print a page of typeset material using a silver stat process. Those machines cost $20,000 and were seriously hard to learn to use.
What I take away from your remarks and those of Petronski is that...
No way in hell would a USAF LTC have had convenient access to any device with TNR font in the 70's!
Game over...
And, by the way...
...nice triangulation between Pennsylvania, Alaska, and Texas!
FR Rules.