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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (201174)9/10/2004 9:13:13 AM
From: i-node   of 1574234
 
On Thursday, a wide range of experts spoke out to say that the proportional font used in the documents was likely produced on a computer using a modern version of Microsoft Word or other word processing program -- technology not available in the early 1970s.

IBM had produced a high-end typewriter capable of using a proportional font at the time but it was expensive and used in the printing business rather than in offices such as the National Guard office where Lt. Col. Killian worked.

According to reports published by ABC News, the font used in the documents is said to be Times Roman, a font commonly found in word processing programs today, but not in use in typewriters in the 1970s.

The documents also contained a superscript font feature which is found in computer word processing programs such as Microsoft Word but was not in use on typewriters in that era. Some experts say it was not possible at that time.

The kind of spacing used in the documents was not available to typewriters of the era either.
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