[ArmyBratproud]

The best part of that was when Fred Barnes pointed out that the typewriter that Dannyboy claims would have existed back then would have cost...in today's dollars...the equal amount of 15000 to 20000 bucks.


I AM TELLING YOU. I GREW UP ON MILITARY BASES....
AND THEY AINT SPENDING THAT KIND OF PERCENTAGE DOLLAR ON A TYPEWRITER!

[jackbill]

The IBM Composer cost about $4,000 in 1972. That's probably more than the entire TANG's annual typewriter budget.

[AndyJackson]

THEY AINT SPENDING THAT KIND OF PERCENTAGE DOLLAR ON A TYPEWRITER

This Killian guy seems to me to be your typical girly-man admin type who was really taken by pretty looking paper-work. I bet he told his wing-man many times that he couldn't wait to put his bird back down on the deck so that he could get back to his desk and churn out some more letter prefect memos to his boss.

Like all fighter jocks he knew how he was going to get his next promotion, and it sure wasn't going to be by flying around with afterburners cut in.

[TC Rider]

I AM TELLING YOU. I GREW UP ON MILITARY BASES.... AND THEY AINT SPENDING THAT KIND OF PERCENTAGE DOLLAR ON A TYPEWRITER!

I got news for everybody, I was in the NG from '72 to '78 and everything we got was regular army hand-me-downs. Most of our office equipment was Korean war vintage.

[narby]

The best part of that was when Fred Barnes pointed out that the typewriter that Dannyboy claims would have existed back then would have cost...in today's dollars...the equal amount of 15000 to 20000 bucks.

The machine he's talking about CAN do the individual items that are seen in the memos. But it CAN NOT duplicate them image perfect. It's been tried already.

While MS Word DOES create image perfect copies.