Reply #125: Crock of Shit

[lapfog_1]

I was using IBMs in 1972, in *HIGH SCHOOL*, with an entire
collection of type face balls. Very useful for greek symbols
(they had an entire type ball of them) and superscripted and
subscripted characters. As for the font used, you need to figure
out if it's "Times Roman" or "Times New Roman" (you used both
in your post).

Also, look at this little gem from the internet
http://subjunctive.net/klog/2004/02/

Look at "Font Change" for a brief history of Times New Roman.
Being an older font than even Courier (and, oddly, Times Roman),
it seems quite probable that Selectric had a type ball with this
font. If IBM didn't, there were even "after market" suppliers
of type balls.

If I was using one (Selectric) in High School, I think it's quite
likely that a National Guard unit would have also had one.