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hap0206

09/12/04 9:38 PM

#65679 RE: ieddyi #65634

eddy -- their minds are made up -- stop confusing them with facts:
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>>>The probability that any technology in existence in 1972 would be capable of producing a document that is nearly pixel-compatible with Microsoft’s Times New Roman font and the formatting of Microsoft Word, and that such technology was in casual use at the Texas Air National Guard, is so vanishingly small as to be indistinguishable from zero.

LOL


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Chris McConnel

09/13/04 12:14 AM

#65810 RE: ieddyi #65634

From Time:

Bill Glennon, a technology consultant in New York City who worked for IBM repairing typewriters from 1973 to 1985, says those experts "are full of crap. They just don't know." Glennon says there were IBM machines capable of producing the spacing, and a customized key -- the likes of which he says were not unusual -- could have created the superscript th.

Gee, I'm really shocked that a bunch of hyper-partisan internet writers with no relevant expertise whatsoever were wrong on this. Good thing the mainstream press kept their wits about them and never gave them any credence.