Has anyone done a REVERSE typewriter test?

[Armstead]

Okay so people have turned on their MS Word machines and matched the type in the Bush Brat memo to it.

But has anyone bothered to dredge out some old IBMs and do the same thing? Maybe they can also make a match to it in the same way. Maybe not.

This whole thing is silly, but Watergate was finally exposed by a gap in a funky old tape recorder, so maybe....

[Lefta Dissenter]

1. I thought the same thing

but unfortunately, I got rid of my old Selectric just a few months ago! :(

But come on, you can't tell me that IBM or some other typewriter person can't come up with a complete line of every model, to do that with! CBS et al should have been prepared for this.

[Armstead]

2. CBS is supposedly doing an internal investigation

The brass issued a release saying they were going to investigate where this came from. Maybe someone will get this idea.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. It is Drudge who reports "internal investigation". Not worth repeating.

It is Drudge who reports "internal investigation". Not worth repeating.

[madinmaryland]

3. My folks may still have their old Royal

typewriter. It was a mechanical one from the late 50's. I don't know what type of typewriter they used in the military in the early 70's, but I doubt that it was the most up-to-date for that time. I remember using electric type writer is high school in the late 70's.

[Warpy]

5. IBM Selectrics

came out in 1961, so they were hardly state of the art in 1972. In fact, they'd replaced mechanical typewriters in nearly all offices with typing pools by the mid 1960s, government/military offices being no exception. In fact, the military has always had a lavish budget, and tended to be more up to date during the cold war.