[MarvinStinson]

There is no need to review the technical evidence about the memos, except to note that 1970s-era typewriters lacked word processing features such as superscripts, kerning (adjusting the spaces between letters to improve readability), proportional spacing and mathematically centered titles. A detailed account of the scandal, which became famous as “RatherGate,” can be found here.

To many, the debunking of the 60 Minutes segment For the Record was a brilliantly effective exercise in free speech that prevented a slanted hit piece from influencing a national election. But to Mapes and Rather, it was a profound injustice.

Dan Rather’s Revenge and the Battle for Free Speech
PJ Media ^ | October 17, 2014 | Scott Swett
Posted on 10/17/2014, 2:13:09 PM by Interesting Times

[fatnotlazy]

About kerning: There was an IBM Executive typewriter that did proportional spacing. I was a temp working at a company that had one back in the mid 70s. It was only used for special projects, not for routine correspondence and documents. It was an awful thing to type on and even worse to correct errors.

Anyhow, I don't remember those typewriters being used that much back in the 1970s and I'm reasonably sure the military didn't have anything that sophisticated. For all I know, they could have still been using manual typewriters.