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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (15871)	9/9/2004 5:25:31 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (3) of 90947

I actually had the misfortune of being assigned an IBM Executive typewriter with the proportional characters on my first clerical summer job during college. I think it was in 1976 or thereabouts. Why the company purchased such a thing for routine typing was beyond me. I was the best typist there and I had never taken a typing course.<g> (a self taught 80 words per minute type) Anyway, the thing was a nightmare. No memory. Any error required a do-over like kick ball. We used those white paper thingies that allowed corrections, but one of my bosses liked his 3 martini lunches and would hold up documents to the light to check for mistakes... Anyway, if you typed a "w" instead of an "l" or vice versa, you were basically screwed...lol I find it hard to believe that the military would opt for such typewriters unless it was a unit doing composition work or some special tasks that required the ability to format with proportional lettering. The thing was a gigantic pain!!

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