[Homestead] Our Maximum Leader's real military record
tvoivozhd
tvoivozd at infionline.net
Wed Sep 15 09:20:20 EDT 2004
Wendy wrote:
>Linda,
>You are right. The company I worked for in the late 70's and 80's had these older Selectrics that had been at the company long before I started. We had special balls that substituted the common superscripts for some of the less common keys like the ~, ^, and * were replaced with superscript th, st, nd. There were other substitutions also, but I was not a secretary, so I didn't use them much and don't remember. I just know that whenever I tried to use the ^ key when typing an equation, I needed to cuss, change the ball and get the white-out.
>Wendy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lynda
> To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 2:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Our Maximum Leader's real military record
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>
> You don't now squat about typewriters! The IBM Composer, which is what you
> are referring to wouldn't have produced that memo. Not without a lot of
> work.
>
> the IBM Selectrics, possibly the Mag Cards and probably the Executive could
> have and all were readily available during that time period. AND, they
> didn't cost $3500 like the Composer.
>
> Furthermore, it is patently obvious that you aren't a typist! Superscript
> and subscript were a whiz with those old Selectrics. Half spacing wasn't a
> problem either. Centering is something any first year typist in any high
> school could have done back then!
>
>
tvoivozhd---you are absolutely right---don't know how so
muchdisinformation about IBM Selectrixs ever got around or why the hell
anyone would believe ig unless they had no regard for fact. In very
early 1960's I was a partner in a well-known Management Consulting
firm---advertising daily in the Wall Street Journal. We had an IBM
Selectric with all the bells and whistles, centering, jusstification,
upper and lower half-spacing, white-out tape. It sure as hell did not
cost $3500, though we would gladly paid that and more---it cost us $700,
period.
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DSanner106 at aol.com>
> To: <homestead at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 4:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Our Maximum Leader's real military record
>
>
> > Experts, in this field, it would appear are dangerous ignorant!
> > You do realize that no selectric ball, could have produced those
> documents??
> > The only IBM capable of producing that in 1973 had been on the market 2
> > months, and was used for typesetting, not office use. Only a handful were
> in the
> > market and would have a cost in the thousands in todays dollars. No
> backwoods
> > national guard office would have had this, and certainly the author, 18
> months
> > discharged at this point, didn't have one at home in his basement.
>
>
tvoivozhd---yeah---the experts you cite sure as hell are, Cost
thousands my ass---$700, and worth every penny---take it from a a
satisfied owner..
> >
> >
> > Fake and you know it
>
>
tvoivozhd---your experts are fake, and now you know it!
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