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>***** Moderator's Note *****
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>At the start of my career in the phone company, only top executives
>could publish memos with a justified right margin: producing them
>required specially-trained typists with access to 1/2 and 1/4 space >enabled typewriters.
OK, _WHAT_ kind of a typewriter was that?
The 'traditional' typewriter capable of 'good looking' right-justification was the IBM 'Executive' line. Characters were 2, 3, 4, or 5, 'units' wide, and the space-bar was "split" with one side giving a 2-unit 'space', and the other a '3-unit' space.
***** Moderator's Note *****I never knew which brand they used: IBM Selectrics were popular then, but it may have been something else. All I ever saw was the copy-of-a-copy. Come to think of it, I don't remember if we had Xerox machines, or if they were mimeos. Does anyone know when Xerox machines came into vogue in Ma Bell?
Bill Horne Temporary Moderator