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To: unclewest who wrote (55564)	9/12/2004 11:58:49 PM
From: Jamey	Respond to of 89467

That question is mute since the IBM Selectric ll came out in the middle 60s. Removable type sphere for different fonts, 10 and 12 pitch, capable of proportional spacing, subscript and superscript. The documents could have easily been done with superscript in 1972. "After the Selectric II was introduced a few years later, the original design was designated the Selectric I. The Correcting Selectric II differed from the Selectric I in many respects: The Selectric II was squarer at the corners, whereas the Selectric I was rounder. The Selectric II had a Dual Pitch option to allow it to be switched (with a lever at the top left of the "carriage") between 10 and 12 characters per inch, whereas the Selectric I had one fixed "pitch". The Selectric II had a lever (at the top left of the "carriage") that allowed characters to be shifted up to a half space to the left (for inserting a word one character longer or shorter in place of a deleted mistake), whereas the Selectric I did not. The Selectric II had optional auto-correction (with the extra key at the bottom right of the keyboard), whereas the Selectric I did not. (The white correction tape was at the left of the typeball and its orange take-up spool at the right of the typeball.) The Selectric II had a lever (above the right platen knob) that would allow the platen to be turned freely but return to the same vertical line (for inserting such symbols as subscripts and superscripts), whereas the Selectric I did not." encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com James I was trained as a technician in 1970 and worked on the Selectric l, ll and lll models including the Selectric I/O computer terminals through 1990.