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To: John Carragher who wrote (69017)9/10/2004 6:42:14 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 793755
 
It's not a ball typewriter. That's a red herring. The ball typewriters (IBM Selectric) don't do proportional spacing. There are typewriters that did - IBM Executive. But they did not do kerning.

Neither did the IBM Composer, which was an expensive heavy typesetting machine. It did proportional spacing but not kerning, as my old boss told me on the phone last night. He's not a Bush supporter.

He said the only machines that kerned back then were typesetting machines like Varitype and Linotype.
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