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  • From: tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Our Maximum Leader's real military record
  • Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:20:20 -0400

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


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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