Forgeries? - not likely
Sep. 10th, 2004 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petardierThe Daily Kos has a lot of details on this here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/10/34914/1603
I'll summarize. Claims that you can re-create this document "exactly" in Microsoft Word are false. The people doing the comparison shrank both documents to compare them. Shrinking documents loses detail. How do they compare when magnified? Naturally, the "experts" haven't done that. Claims that the proportional font typewriters weren't available in the 70's are false. They were available starting in the late 40's. The proportional typewriters weren't as expense as some are saying either. The "experts" also haven't mentioned that some letters in the CBS original float above or below the baseline. This is a characteristic of typewritten documents, not computer-printed ones.
What boggles my mind is that the mainstream press doesn't seem to know what's in this article yet. Will they ever? The Internet is a great place to start your research. You don't have to trust Kos (or anyone else), by the way, just use that information as a starting point and confirm it. Be sure to ask your news station why they haven't been competent enough to do so.
Here's even more typewriter lore for those who just have to know all the details:
http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2004/09/ibm-executive-typewriters.html
Read this far? Now you know more than most (maybe even all) of the newsies on the air today. But wait, there's more ...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/10/205917/730
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/10/34914/1603
I'll summarize. Claims that you can re-create this document "exactly" in Microsoft Word are false. The people doing the comparison shrank both documents to compare them. Shrinking documents loses detail. How do they compare when magnified? Naturally, the "experts" haven't done that. Claims that the proportional font typewriters weren't available in the 70's are false. They were available starting in the late 40's. The proportional typewriters weren't as expense as some are saying either. The "experts" also haven't mentioned that some letters in the CBS original float above or below the baseline. This is a characteristic of typewritten documents, not computer-printed ones.
What boggles my mind is that the mainstream press doesn't seem to know what's in this article yet. Will they ever? The Internet is a great place to start your research. You don't have to trust Kos (or anyone else), by the way, just use that information as a starting point and confirm it. Be sure to ask your news station why they haven't been competent enough to do so.
Here's even more typewriter lore for those who just have to know all the details:
http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2004/09/ibm-executive-typewriters.html
Read this far? Now you know more than most (maybe even all) of the newsies on the air today. But wait, there's more ...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/10/205917/730
