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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (99309)	2/8/2005 12:37:24 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793623

Wangs were invented in 1976. The Texas TANG did not have word processors of any variety at the time in question. So saith the secretary you've already cited. She typed all documents on a typewriter. When showed the documents in question by the Dallas Morning News, she said "these are not real . . . . they are not what I typed." Partisanship has nothing to do with this. A thing either is, or it ain't.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (99309)	2/8/2005 12:43:35 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793623

CBS interviewed the General's family for the story. The family disputes Ms Knox's memory about the information in the documents. CBS did not include this contradictory testimony in their report. How do you explain the fact that CBS left out all information that casted doubt on their thesis? According to news reports: <<<<<<Marian Carr Knox told the Dallas Morning News after viewing copies of the disputed memos, "These are not real," and that "the information in here was correct, but it was picked up from the real ones." >>>>

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (99309)	2/8/2005 12:50:14 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793623

would also add that by 1970, every large business organization and most medium sized businesses used word processors. No, word processors did not take off until after the development of floppy disks in 1972, which provided unlimited storage. Before that, storage was limited to the machine's capacity, usually no more than 100 pages. Word processors were the hot new technology of the 1970s (this was the time of Wang's meteoric rise), but they were still big, bulky, expensive machines, costing $10,000 and up. Word processors held sway until the rise of the personal computer, which moved out of hobbyist status into the business world with the introduction of the IBM PC in 1981. However, where they [CBS] left it is that they could not authenticate the documents - but they did not authenticate them to be forgeries either. Oh Mary, give it a rest. Yes, that's where CBS left it - they didn't "authenticate' the documents to be forgeries. But the whole point is that the documents were obvious forgeries, as proved by real computer font experts on the blogosphere within one day, so CBS News had no business passing them off as genuine. Nor would they have done, if the story had not been "too good to check".