Reply #112: So Times New Roman is what was on the typewriter head [View All]

[SoCalDemocrat]

I don't think Microsoft invented Times Roman font. If you research it, I'm sure you'll discover that it predates the typewriter used to type this report. I'm not ruling out forgery, just pointing out that your test proves nothing.

I believe the document was typed on an IBM Selectric II. Why don't we just have the President refute this article as a forgery if the content is in fact innacurate? That's exactly what the swifties demanded from Kerry, we should demand the same standard be applied here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter



The Selectric typewriter was first released in 1961 and is generally considered to be a design classic. After the Selectric II was introduced a few years later, the original design was designated the Selectric I. The Correcting Selectric II differed from the Selectric I in many respects:

The Selectric II was squarer at the corners, whereas the Selectric I was rounder.

The Selectric II had a Dual Pitch option to allow it to be switched (with a lever at the top left of the "carriage") between 10 and 12 characters per inch, whereas the Selectric I had one fixed "pitch".

The Selectric II had a lever (at the top left of the "carriage") that allowed characters to be shifted up to a half space to the left (for inserting a word one character longer or shorter in place of a deleted mistake), whereas the Selectric I did not.

The Selectric II had optional auto-correction (with the extra key at the bottom right of the keyboard), whereas the Selectric I did not. (The white correction tape was at the left of the typeball and its orange take-up spool at the right of the typeball.)

The Selectric II had a lever (above the right platen knob) that would allow the platen to be turned freely but return to the same vertical line (for inserting such symbols as subscripts and superscripts), whereas the Selectric I did not.