From: Dave 

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:29:20 -0400, "John Beamish"  wrote in message :

| Not fake.  I used an IBM typewriter back in 1967 that had proportional
font spacing.  There was a pair of backspace keys to the left of the
spacebar that would go back 1 or 2 units.  Using correcting paper (yellow
backing of white powdery substance) was a pain -- and a strong incentive to
improve my typing.

Yeah, we had one in my HIGH SCHOOL typing class.  It also used a sort of
film instead of regular ink-impregnated ribbon, so you couldn't re-type
over the same ribbon, it had to be replaced after one pass through the
machine.

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