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Vitruvius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 11:02 PM
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32. You could type mathematical equations on either an IBM Executive or
IBM Selectric back in the '60s and '70s. Full of superscripts, subscripts, Greek letters, and more... With the Selectric, you'd swap balls; with the Executive, you'd use a small box full of special characters.

In addition, a built-in superscript "th" was common...

Any technical typist from that era would laugh at the Bu$h spin that a superscript "th" proves it's a forgery because typewriters back then allegedly couldn't do such things...
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