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To: combjelly who wrote (201625)	9/12/2004 5:24:06 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1574041

Why not? What would have prevented it? We know, for example, that proportional space could be done in that time frame, despite all the "experts" who claimed it couldn't. We know that certain typewriters could be sourced with specialized keys, again despite the claims of those "experts", there is an example of it in the logs. Now true, there hasn't been an example yet of proportional space combined with a superscript 'th' show up yet, outside of that memo. But is there any technical reason to believe it couldn't be done as you assert? Apparently, not according to another 'expert', Bill Glennon. "But Bill Glennon, a technology consultant in New York City who worked for IBM repairing typewriters from 1973 to 1985, says those experts "are full of crap. They just don't know." Glennon says there were IBM machines capable of producing the spacing, and a customized key — the likes of which he says were not unusual — could have created the superscript th. " time.com

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