[time-nuts] HP's typewriter 'n' stuff

[Chuck Harris]

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