Reply #44: But, would TANG have a MICOM or other [View All]

[Virginian]

type of word processing machine and would that officer have known how to use it?
If I remember correctly, you had to type it out and then make some adjustments and have it retype your work. These machines were large and were kept separate from the other office machines at school. They used a huge floppy disk. Maybe they were some of the first electronic machines?

IBM did also make some proportional spacing typewriters. I guess they were mechanical. My parents rented one back in 1968 to do a reunion book for my Dad's old war buddies. That machine was used like a regular electric typewriter only the keyboard was larger because of the special keys. It must have had "st", "nd", "rd", and "th" keys because it had a key that would type "f" and "i" together.

We had Selectrics in the public schools in 1965 when I took my first typing class. I don't know when IBM started making them.