David Forbes wrote: > I was just looking at the old HP clock manuals I rescued from the > obsolete NRAO files. There are a few things of note. > > 1. HP made a special version of the 113BR clock and the 103AR > oscillator called the H02 version. This provides sidereal time by use > of a 1.00273791 MC crystal. > > 2. HP used what appears to be an IBM Executive typewriter to write > some of their errata. They appear to have commissioned a special > typewriter key with the HP logo. It's the old lower-case stylized hp > in a circle. This also shows up in the manuals themselves, but I > think the manuals were typeset due to their high quality. This errata > was clearly produced on a proportional pitch typewriter. > > 3. Other errata appear to be typed on a non-proportional typewriter. > One has the special HP logo (using two character spaces), the other > substitutes a typed -hp- for the logo. > > 4. Yes, it was my twin brother's Selectric Typewriter Museum that was > used as the "expert source" in the 2004 Bush memo scandal. All this > typewriter font stuff is blindingly obvious if you look closely at > the characters typed on the page.
Well, that would require an editor that actually did some work at the various news bureaus, something they seem to avoid. -Chuck _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
