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From: Rich Alderson
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:34

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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes:

> On Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 9:02:50 PM UTC-4, Bob Eager wrote:

>> Not to mention the 'Near Letter Quality' dot matrix printers. I bought a 
>> Canon PW1080A printer in 1984 that had that. 9 pins (I think). The 
>> printer did a line using the 9 pins, then reversed the carriage and moved 
>> the paper up by a fractional amount. It then printed back the other way, 
>> filling in the gaps between the dots. There was a separate bold function.

> At that time, the expected standard for business correspondence
> was a letter typed on an electric typewriter, preferably with a
> film ribbon, and preferably by a Selectric.

Beg to differ.  The gold standard for business correspondence at that time was
not a Selectric, but an IBM Executive with proportional spacing.  My mother was
an expert with one, preparing camera-ready copy for her company's annual report
and similar work.

-- 
Rich Alderson					  ne...@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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