David E. Powell wrote:
> On Oct 26, 10:45 am, "John W. Kennedy"
 wrote:
>> David E. Powell wrote:
>>> On Oct 23, 4:08 pm, "John W. Kennedy"
 wrote:
>>>> David E. Powell wrote:
>>>>> Dude, Fox News hardly has a monopoly even if they got
caught in some
>>>>> fabrication. Actually fake documents sounds more like
the CBS story
>>>>> that left Dan Rather in trouble.
>>>> The only /proven/ falsifications in that affair were those
coming from
>>>> the ignorant (or lying) "experts" who claimed
that typewriters available
>>>> in the 70s couldn't do proportional type. Hell, my
father's secretary
>>>> had a proportional-spacing typewriter in the 50s.
>>> Check out the comparison, font for font, with a modern computer using
>>> MS software at this link:
>> That has nothing to do with the fact that these people /provably/ either
>> lied about 70s typewriters or lied about being typewriter experts.
> 
> How rare was any sort of typewriter that did that, compared to common
> office models then? 

I have no idea, but they were regular IBM catalog items.

> Computerized typewriters were not the majority by
> any means.

Computers have nothing to do with it; these were just improved electric 
typewriters that did their magic with ordinary cams, gears, and levers. 
As I said, my father's secretary had one back in the 50s.


-- 
John W. Kennedy
"There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump 
of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that 
because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in 
the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I 
can't see it that way."
   -- The last words of Bat Masterson
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