"Curtis L. Russell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:48:22 GMT, "Tom Kunich" <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:Aside from typesetters, almost no one could do this. In fact it wasn't
even
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:considered by typists until the advent of the CRT screen on which the
typists result would show and be corrected BEFORE it went on paper.
Well, not exactly. The better Selectrics had a small display that
permitted composing over several lines before printing. From memory,
they came out in the late 1970s, which would precede large scale use
of word processing at the desk by several years.
NOT in 1972! The only displays available were extremely crude CRT displays
and Nixie Tubes which were only available in numbers or a few letters. You
have to remember that in 1970 I obtained the FIRST Sylvania solid state
memory ICs and tested them. They could store 16 bits and the die was
mis-wired so that half of the bits were high true and the other half were
low true. By 1972 the VERY first LED numeric displays were hitting the
market and were almost unobtainable unless you were a pocket calculator
manufacturer and were ordering them by the millions.
So there really wasn't anything available in 1972 that cold display an
entire line for a typewritten page.
Quoted message said:Two people that are evidently even more interested in this sideline
than myself have identified the one 'typewriter' that would come
close. Evidently there was a 1972 $ 3,600 machine (1972 dollars)
called the Selectric Composer (mini-typesetter rather than a true
typewriter) that could come awfully darned close. Except it required
changing font sets to do the superscript as in the memo and when they
got closer to the actual memo it revealed that the Times Roman used by
the Selectric font ball - a rarity - did not come that close to
matching in certain areas.
I haven't seen a single reference to any Times Roman script balls and have
some real doubts because they would be of such extremely limited demand.
Making these balls was VERY expensive since the tooling had to be all hand
made.
Quoted message said:I agree that this is a sideline, but its the type of thing that swings
elections if allowed (by the Democrats) to continue. It doesn't even
have to escalate and the eventual fraud (my opinion) doesn't have to
be tied directly to the Democrats or anyone associated with the DNC or
the Kerry election group.
It's my belief that this all stems from the Clinton group who intend to keep
Kerry out in order to have a plausible platform for Hillary in '08.
Quoted message said:This is about swing voters. The Republican Convention created real
momentum and at the point that Kerry has to stop that momentum and
move it in his direction, you have this grabbing the headlines. Terry
Mcauliffe's remarks to the contrary, no one else is linking this to
the Republican side (although it does make interesting conspiracy
theory, all tied to a certainty that Rather and CBS couldn't resist
the bait). This is bad for the Democrats and it only has to live
another couple of weeks to make the difference. THE difference.
Electioneering has always been a dirty business but network news owes their
entire fortunes to the fact that they are licensed to send their commercials
ot over public airwaves. If that's the case they OWE us the very least of
presenting as neutral a news reporting as possible.
Over the years the networks have been moving further and further to the
left. Not as a purposeful shift but because they tend to hire journalists
who agree with the bosses and don't make waves and that sort of thing causes
those sorts of shifts.
But now it is so outrageous I believe that the FCC will have to step in with
some sort of "Fairness Doctrine" that all stations must abide by or lose
their licenses.
