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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (99327)	2/8/2005 1:32:19 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793623

I was there. Ah, but where was "there"? Not the TANG. They didn't use computers for generating correspondence and that's a fact.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (99327)	2/8/2005 1:36:55 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Respond to of 793623

Mary, yes, proportional-spacing typewriters and wordprocessors were available in the early 1970s. In fact, they were available much earlier than that. The point is that none of the technology available at the time those documents were allegedly produced was capable of producing those documents. We had this discussion, and on this very thread, at the time of the Rather's infamous, career-killing newscast, replete with bazillion confirmatory links to bazillion wordprocessors and typewriters. - Holly

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (99327)	2/8/2005 1:39:12 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793623

Programs where you typed into a computer or a typewriter and where you stored the text on some magnetic medium and were able to recall it and make chnges to it and then print it over and over again were in widespread use way before 1976. IBM's MTST was in use in 1970 because I used one. Wrote to tape. Didn't have proportional fonts, though.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (99327)	2/8/2005 1:42:51 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793623

The proportional font issue is a subtle one, but dispositive. Not all proportional fonts are spaced the same way. In fact, every typeface has subtle differences in the way that the letters are spaced. The Rather memos were spaced precisely the way that Times New Roman in MS Word is spaced. No other typeface on the planet is spaced exactly the same way. Not Times New Roman on a typewriter. Not Times New Roman in another word processing program.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (99327)	2/8/2005 3:26:16 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793623

How do I know, I was there. Then you should also remember how expensive those machines were. They existed in small numbers in big corporante offices. They were not used in Nation Guard offices. They were defitnitely not used the TexANG offices, as confirmed by Killians secretary, who said she typed his correspondence on an Olympia typewriter.