IBM Selectric Composer? No Way.

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Fri Sep 10, 2004 at 7:31 pm PDT • Views: 1,014

The spin from the left is that the IBM Selectric Composer typewriter may have been capable of producing the CBS News National Guard documents in 1972/1973.

Out of all the left’s possible strategies for torquing the issue, this is one I never thought they would use—because it is absurd on its very face. (Little inside type joke there.)

The Shape of Days has the definitive analysis, with examples from documents typed on an actual IBM Selectric Composer.

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