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[Marc James Small]

At 10:03 AM 1/4/2009, CoolVT at aol.com wrote:
 >The 25 year old "Brother" typewriter that I have has 3 or 4  different pin
 >wheels. Each has a different sized or styled type.  I believe  the IBM
 >electric's of the same vintage had interchangeable " balls" that  had
 >different type
 >size/styles.
 >Seems the secret is to find a business that never threw out the old
 >typewriters.   Actually there were some Federal forms that some
 >offices had to
 >complete and were still using a typewriter
without a ribbon  so it could type
 >through 8 carboned copies at a time.  This was only about  5 years ago
 >that  friend
 >told me she was doing this.  So, there might  be some around.

If the truth be told, the basic IBM Selectric was
only produced to use elite (10-pitch) or pica
(12-pitch) type, though they also made a rather
rare Selectric Compositor which would be the
beast you would need, and I would suggest that
these would best be found in a publishing firm
where they were used in producing magazines and
the like.  The later IBM Wheelwriter was both
delightfully simpler and more utile and did allow
for a broader range of type sizes.

I still have a Greek pica ball for a Selectric
and a Wheelwriter with a couple of oddball fonts.

But, in the end, you need a compositor of some
sort to provide the font you would need.

Marc


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