From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:31:55 -0500, Dave  wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:49:00 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote in message :
>
> | Just a data point, but the Selectric II was available in 1972 and it
> did
> | have correcting built in. (no proportional font in it though.)
>
> We had some sort of fancy Selectric Displaywriter in the typing lab of
> my high school in 1972.  It did proportional fonts, superscripts,
> margin justification, and other such things.  Its output looked like
> it came from a print shop.
>
> There was just one of them, and we were told not to fuck with it, but
> when the teacher was out of the room (frequently) I couldn't resist.
>

The Displaywriter was intoduced much later.  I used one at a NY state agency.

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Gary Wiltshire

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