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To: combjelly who wrote (201142)	9/10/2004 12:19:19 AM
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Specialized print balls. You know, something that IBM advertised? It wasn't even particularly expensive... Nope. While proportional spacing was available at the time, there were no selectric balls that contain the superscript characters that appeared in the document, at least not that I ever saw (I think you could find a SYMBOL ball that had the digits in super- and subscript). Proportional spacing was exceptionally rare, as were the SYMBOL balls. >> Are you, by any chance, an Eric Von Danniken enthusiasts? Nope. I just had occasion in grad school to work on a project interfacing a selectric to one of the early homebrew computers; as a result I know a LITTLE (not a lot) about selectrics. I don't believe anyone will be able to produce a selectric ball that could have produced the documents. Perhaps I'll turn out to be wrong about this, but I don't think so.

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