"David E. Powell"  wrote in message
news:1193757989.708057.258950{at}y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
> On Oct 28, 6:13 pm, "John W. Kennedy"
 wrote:
> > David E. Powell wrote:

> (Image at site)
>
> WizBang points to the Selectric Typewriter Museum, which has this to
> say:
>
> For those who want my opinion...the documents appear to be done in
> Word, and then copied repeatedly to make them "fuzzy". They use
> features that were not available on office typewriters the 1970s,
> specifically the combination of proportional spacing with superscript
> font. The IBM Executive has proportional spacing, but used fixed type
> bars. The Selectric has changeable type elements, but fixed spacing
> (some models could be selected at 10 or 12 pitch, but that's all). The
> Selectric Composer was not an office typewriter, but apparently did
> use proportional spacing. These were very expensive machines, used by
> printing offices, not administrative offices.

And would one be used in an ofice on a military base, circa 1970?


Dennis


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