Re: Old word processors

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From: hanc...
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:18

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On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 4:34:05 PM UTC-4, Rich Alderson wrote:

> > 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.

Yes, good point.  The IBM Executive was a wonderful typewriter.  
Heavy solid, but well balanced carriage.  Excellent print quality.

One office I worked in used them.  They had a handsome typeface
that looked sort of like Century School Book, more of a printed
look than typewritten (though still fixed width).

On bitsavers, a lot of the manuals appear to have been prepared by
an IBM proportional typewriter in the 1950s.

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