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musette_sf

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3. Typewriters at the time the memo was written
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 11:44 AM
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DID have proportional spacing. The IBM Executive had proportional spacing. It wasn’t terribly unusual to see them before Selectrics totally dominated IBM’s offerings. I used one at the job I had at that time, and I got quite good at it. A capital W was five units, a capital I was one unit, and there was a half-unit spacebar along with the standard one-unit spacebar so that one could even do primitive kerning. That whole thing pissed me off so much, especially what it did to Dan Rather.

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