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To: combjelly who wrote (201157)	9/10/2004 12:56:19 AM
From: i-node	of 1574384

Oh duh. You claim essentially zero experience with Selectrics of that time period, but say you don't believe their number one selling point? Other than the proportional space, that is. Other than the basic character set, the whole point of the Selectrics was the ability to do special characters. Hence their name... That was the whole point behind the easily replaceable ball. I'm simply saying that in my experience there was no ball capable of producing a proportionally spaced, superscripted "th" as the documents reflected. You could have used the SYMBOL ball to produce a superscripted "1", "2", or subscripted. But the SYMBOL ball did not contain "th". In my experience, there was no such capability. I admit that my experience was largely related to software interfacing of the device, which involved substantial ALC work in converting the Selectric's character set to straight ASCII; but I don't believe such a ball exists (although I obviously used Selectrics frequently in the day typing papers in Grad School). Show me evidence that I'm wrong and I'll admit it. I have never, that I recall, seen a SYMBOL ball that contained "th" in superscript.

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