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  • IBM Selectric Composer required you to type document twice!

    09/11/2004 2:41:47 PM PDT · by airedale · 48 replies · 2,375+ views
    http://www.ibmcomposer.org/SelComposer/description.htm | self
    Someone else mentioned a website that is dedicated tot the IBM Selectric Composer. The link above will take you to that website. Besides being around four times more expensive to purchase than a regular IBM Selectric the website had a bit of information about the IBM Selectric Composer that hasn't been mentioned in anything I've seen so far. It seems you have to type everything twice perfectly when you use the Composer. Here is that section from the ibmcomposer.org website: click here "The first IBM Composer was the IBM "Selectric" Composer announced in 1966. It was a hybrid "Selectric" typewriter...
  • CBS News FReeped <--- (actual headline)

    09/10/2004 11:57:19 PM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 269 replies · 7,072+ views
    Illinois Leader ^ | Friday, September 10, 2004 | by Arlen Williams
    NEW YORK -- Yesterday, Goliath CBS News was delivered a smooth stone to the forehead by a FReeper. A poster in the FreeRepublic.com conservative news forum mentioned something peculiar about two documents CBS’s 60 Minutes claimed on September 8 were generated by now deceased Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian regarding an allegedly National Guard-evading George W. Bush in 1973. Within minutes following the broadcast, FReeper "TankerKC" wrote this to FReeper "Howlin'": WE NEED TO SEE THOSE MEMOS AGAIN! {snip] Since then, news of the potential forgery glitch spread like wildfire from blog to blog and into the mainstream press -...