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ItsThePeopleStupid

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Fri Sep-10-04 01:44 PM
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124. of superscripts, proportional fonts, and Times New Roman

I was a secretary in the 60s and 70s. To do superscripts, you simply rolled the carriage up a little and typed, while holding the carriage in place. Changing font size from pica to elite was done by moving a lever.

The article says Times Roman, not Times NEW Roman.

As to proportional fonts, they were first used in 1941 by IBM:

IBM announces the Electromatic Model 04 electric typewriter, featuring the revolutionary concept of proportional spacing. By assigning varied rather than uniform spacing to different sized characters, the Type 4 recreated the appearance of a printed page, an effect that was further enhanced by a typewriter ribbon innovation that produced clearer, sharper words on the page. The proportional spacing feature became a staple of the IBM Executive series typewriters.
http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1941.html

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