Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Joe Nicholson:


 LE> There *were* such things as electric typewriters even 50 years ago.

 LE> I used to own a rather odd IBM typewriter (IBM Executive). It used
 LE> a *proportional* font!! And had a split space bar. One half did an
 LE> "en" space the other did an "em" space (2 &
3 "units"
 LE> respectively). 

 LE> The backspace worked in "units", with various characters taking
 LE> from 1 to 5 units. I had a cheat sheet so I could tell how far I
 LE> had to backspace for a particular character.

I had one of those rascals!  You could really turn out a beautiful page if
you wanted to take the time to do it.  

I hated to give it up, but it finally got a sickness that I couldn't
scavange parts to fix.  :-(


    Everett 
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