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To: longnshort who wrote (15859)	9/9/2004 3:05:08 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) of 90947

Longnshort, I'm no expert, but those documents do look to have been produced on some sort of impact typewriter, but then passing them through the copy machine several times can produce similarly smudgy results. I also note that the documents are not right-justified. What kind(s) of typewriters were used in those days by the military? Did it not use any kind of word-processing equipment anywhere? Such which was most assuredly available in those days, and much of it was done using an ordinary electric typewriter hooked up to some sort of computer for the purpose of playback and correction. And yes, I well remember the cost of the IBM Selectric back then, the finest typewriter ever made. - Holly stanford.edu In 1969 IBM introduced MagCards, magnetic cards that were slipped into a box attached to the typewriter and recorded text as it was typed on paper. The cards could then be used to recall and reprint text. These were useful mostly to companies which sent out large numbers of form letters. However, only about one page-worth of text could be stored on each card. In 1972 Lexitron and Linolex developed a similar word processing system, but included video display screens and tape cassettes for storage. With the screen, text could be entered and corrected without having to produce a hard copy. Printing could be delayed until the writer was satisfied with the material. The floppy disk marked a new stage in the evolution of storage media. Developed by IBM in the early 1970s for use in data processing (that is, traditional number computation), it was soon adopted by the word processing industry. Vydec, in 1973, seems to have been the first manufacturer to produce a word processing system using floppy disks for storage. Previous storage media could only hold one or two pages of text, but the early disks were capable of holding 80 to 100 pages. This increased storage capacity permitted the creation and easy editing of multipage documents without the necessity of changing storage receptacles.

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