It was well into the 80s before proportional fonts came into use and even then few people had them.
Yup. I went to college in the early 80s at a very high-tech university on the IT cutting edge. Junior year, I typed my resume on a borrowed typewriter. Senior year, I used a computer system a friend had access to in the Computer Science Department. It was the Xerox Altos system (perhaps not yet for sale to the public), a precursor to the Mac (and which Apple largely copied, including the "mouse" interface.) The resume was in beautifully proportionately spaced fonts.
Prior to the 80s, the only folks using proportional fonts were publishers and the like.
It was the Xerox Altos system (perhaps not yet for sale to the public), a precursor to the Mac (and which Apple largely copied, including the "mouse" interface.) The resume was in beautifully proportionately spaced fonts. That was the Alto, a 12 bit microcoded Nova with a full page graphic interface and a whopping 1-2 MB hard disk. These machines were never for sale to the public though they did go to a few universities and to the White House. I used one for several years at Xerox PARC until they were replaced by the Dandylions and Dorados. Fine machines all.
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