This page casts doubt on a document related to George W. Bush’s National Guard service because, according to the author, it appears to have been typed on a modern typewriter. But the page has a lot of disinformation about typewriters.
For example, it is claimed that,
A couple of Kerry Spot readers explain that the memo linked above is “proportionally spaced,” meaning a thin letter like an “i” or an “l” takes less space than an “n” or an “m”. Apparently proportional spacing was impossible on typewriters during this period.
Huh? IBM began selling typewriters with proportional spacing in the 1940s, including its Electromatic which was very popular with government agencies (the document in question was written by an individual with the Texas Air National Guard.)